Cover Crop Planted

[Shaggy98]

No-tilled a few acres of cover crops this past Friday.  If we get some rain I'm hoping to get a few days worth of grazing.

[clayton58]

How does your wheat look where you had cover last year vs fallow?

[Shaggy98]

They both look equally bad.  I'll try to post a couple pictures comparing the two tomorrow.

[clayton58]

Also what all did you have in your cover this year?

[Shaggy98]

I was afraid someone would ask, let the heckeling begin.

Oats - 73%

Corn - 10.5%

Soybeans - 4%

Hunter turnips - 4.5%

Winfred Turnips - 4.5%

Rapeseed - 2.5%

Purpletop Turnips - 1%

Blended together and seeded at 48# per acre.  The soybeans & purpletops were last minute additions of seed that was going to be thrown away by the dealer.

[Shaggy98]

A couple pictures displaying cover crops about 3 weeks after planting.  Getting large enough to start seeing the different species, although I haven't noticed any corn yet. Other than the oats, I couldn't tell you what the others are just yet.  I'll be interested to see how the surface applied manure strips will effect growth in a few weeks.

Took an hour off to throw a few targets for my son.  He didn't do to bad for his 3rd time out, broke 19 out of 23.  Planning on substituting a roaming turkey for the clay targets later this morning.

[Shaggy98]

Snapped a couple pictures of the cover crops.  The one photo where I zoomed in a little you can start to see the corn over the top of the oats.  Hoping to get the oats hayed within the next few days and no-till forage sorghum right behind it.

[Shaggy98]

Cover crops no more, hoping for about 2 bales per acre.

Notice the cattle in the background already chewing their cud, but they'll need to wait a bit, this hay will be fed during the winter months.