Love the smell of winter rye in the morning!
09-01-2010, 04:09 PM
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Love the smell of winter rye in the morning!
Please start playing "Filght of the Valkyries" in your mind...
Here is a unique way we planted rye at work today. We planted 10 fields, about 300 acres, all over SE Minnesota. Here we are with our rye and spinner spreader.
Now we just have to wait for our tractor. Here he comes...
The ground crew hooked him up, and we loaded about 600 lbs of rye into the spreader. We planted the rye at 100 lbs/a.
Off he goes to plant 6 acres at 65 knots, takes about 5 minutes for a return and refill.
Here you can see the rye coming out of the spreader. The spreader has a 70 ft throw, and GPS lets the pilot know where to go in the field.
This rye was planted as a cover crop (protect the soil from erosion, and it will scavenge nitrogen in the soil) into standing corn and soybeans. As you can see in the first picture, corn silage harvest is well under way. Once the silage is off, and the soybeans drop their leaves, the rye will take off. The rye will be harvested in the spring for dairy cow forage.
How does this relate to food plots? Winter rye can be planted into standing corn and soybeans. It will grow this fall, and remain green and attractive all throughout the fall and winter. It needs very little fertilizer, protects the soil, scavenges excess fertilizer, and can be left on the soil surface (rain will cover the seed well enough for a decent stand). Next spring, deer will hammer the fresh, green, rapidly growing rye while other plants are still dormant up here in the far north. Besides, Hossdaniels has too many cool toy pictures, and I had to post something he doesn't have
Here is a unique way we planted rye at work today. We planted 10 fields, about 300 acres, all over SE Minnesota. Here we are with our rye and spinner spreader.
Now we just have to wait for our tractor. Here he comes...
The ground crew hooked him up, and we loaded about 600 lbs of rye into the spreader. We planted the rye at 100 lbs/a.
Off he goes to plant 6 acres at 65 knots, takes about 5 minutes for a return and refill.
Here you can see the rye coming out of the spreader. The spreader has a 70 ft throw, and GPS lets the pilot know where to go in the field.
This rye was planted as a cover crop (protect the soil from erosion, and it will scavenge nitrogen in the soil) into standing corn and soybeans. As you can see in the first picture, corn silage harvest is well under way. Once the silage is off, and the soybeans drop their leaves, the rye will take off. The rye will be harvested in the spring for dairy cow forage.
How does this relate to food plots? Winter rye can be planted into standing corn and soybeans. It will grow this fall, and remain green and attractive all throughout the fall and winter. It needs very little fertilizer, protects the soil, scavenges excess fertilizer, and can be left on the soil surface (rain will cover the seed well enough for a decent stand). Next spring, deer will hammer the fresh, green, rapidly growing rye while other plants are still dormant up here in the far north. Besides, Hossdaniels has too many cool toy pictures, and I had to post something he doesn't have
