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| Typically drill c. rye in after harvest and no-till drill beans into ankle to knee high type rye mid to late April.
If it's a wet or good moisture spring, will usually let the soybeans emerge before "pre" spraying often in the mid May period.
If it looks like things are getting potentially too dry, will try and spray more like early May.
I'm still not comfortable letting the rye get much over waist high, but once in a while that can happen, which hasn't ever turned into that big a deal.
Have been doing something similar to this for about 15 years, and feel like we often do get some of the extra yield gains from going early as the beans will be blooming by the longest days of the year. This year all the SB fields but 1 were +80.
Quite a few in our area now plant some of their beans before corn most years, which is nice as I am no longer the lone nut who has been doing some of that since the 1980's, ha. | |
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Cover crops and early beans
