Floyd Johnson wrote:
> I don't think any thing could compete in this cover. maybe if rolling
> will kill it then we could Aer-Way it and No-till plant. But for the
> microbes is the residue better on top or incorporated in top 6" or
> deeper?We are trying to build our soil organic matter to 5% or more.
> The rolling stalk chopper requires rye to be at least 18" for it to
> work most people say to kill it sooner.Will chopper work on red clover
> and what would be the time frame?
> Elane Ingam spoke about microbes an said the best thing we could do for
> them is to keep living roots in soil all of the time. If we kill cover
> early to keep it from getting to big ,but cant plant for a while, what
> impact is this having on the microbes? Is there any reason to feed
> anaerobic microbes?
>
> hschomberg@ag.gov wrote:
> >
> > Floyd
> >
> > I am a nieve researcher in the southeast and was wondering why you don't
> > plant dirrectly into the residue. That's how I have been working with some
> > of the plant material here. I know when we dirrectly plant into green
> > material it is a problem but the planting operation seems to crush the
> > clover the rye however is a real problem. We are currently looking at
> > rolling cover crops to kill them ahead of planting. Wayne Reeves over at
> > Auburn is also trying this and has had some success. If you have a forage
> > chopper or a cultipacker or something similar you might give it a try.
> > I'd be interested in how your system is working.
> >
> > Harry Schomberg
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