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| I had many calls from neighbors a couple of weeks ago when were having cover crop seed flown on over soybeans. A yellow bi-plane stands out zooming up and down over the fields. The pilot put on quite a show! |
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| We were dropping cereal rye, crimson clover and tillage radishes into the standing soybean crop. The idea is the seeds will germinate as the leaves drop off the soybeans as they mature. |
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| These cover crops will serve a dual purpose. They will help hold the soil down this winter during rain events to prevent erosion. They will also serve as nutrient scavengers and prevent loss of nutrients in our soil. The soil nutrients that are left from the soybean crop will be locked up in the cover crop plants. We will spray and kill the cover crop in the early spring before we plant corn. As the plant material breaks down and rots away it will make the nutrients they took up available for our corn crop next spring. |
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| When I asked one of our team members if he would like to be in the plane with the pilot his reply was "It would sure be better than being up there without him!" |
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| Our soybean crop is quickly maturing and looks to have excellent yield potential. |
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| Photo credits to Brian McCord/Journal Communications www.TNagriculture.com |
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