And with that means field work! We will be out sampling cover crops soon, and thinking about burning them down in advance of corn. Corn gets planted early in the bluegrass, and we're hoping to plant in mid-April. That means killing off the cover crop by the end of March to avoid any issues with the corn.
Here are two cover crop field days in southern Illinois for those of you in that part of the woods--I met Nathan Johanning last month at the Midwest Cover Crop Council meeting and he talked about growers in this neck of the woods seeing good results after years of using cover crops on some tough soils. We think about Illinois as having nice prairie soils, but parts of southern IL have the same fragipan soils that we have in Kentucky. The first one (in Springerton) will dig a soil pit, which is cool to see if you haven't seen it before! I know it's a busy time, but consider going if the weather is bad and you aren't out in the field! April 1, 2016 - 9 a.m. On-Farm Spring Cover Crop Field Day - Jr. Upton Farm, Springerton, IL http://web.extension.illinois.edu/units/event.cfm?UnitID=629&EventID=71517 April 7, 2016 - 10 a.m. Spring Cover Crop Field Day – Ewing Demonstration Center, Ewing, IL http://web.extension.illinois.edu/units/event.cfm?UnitID=629&EventID=71578
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AuthorErin Haramoto, University of Kentucky weed science Archives
May 2018
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