For farmers trying to Flip their Soil and improve soil health one simple thing they can do this fall is plant cereal rye as a cover crop and plant soybeans into that stand. Soil health experts say ...

Crops like cereal rye and winter wheat are planted in the fall after corn and soybean crops are harvested. These crops keep the soil intact, helping reduce erosion and nutrient runoff, Gentry said.

More specifically, planting soybean over a cereal rye cover crop demonstrates an effective practice to both produce soybean and to suppress two problematic Amaranthus weed species: waterhemp and ...

A former Washington State University graduate student is looking for farmer input about cereal rye. Laura Valli, a former Ph.D. student at Washington State University’s Bread Lab in Mount Vernon ...

Corn (left) and soybean (right) planted green into no-till fields of cereal rye in 2020. Editor’s note: The following was written by Jenny Brhel, Chris Proctor and Katja Koehler-Cole ...

A field planted with cereal rye, one of the most common cover crops in Iowa. Photo by Ally Larson/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons ...

Potential allelopathy For several years, we’ve heard about the potential allelopathic effect — the release of chemicals by one plant that inhibits the growth of adjacent plants — cereal rye ...