Doug Hanson

Agronomy: Termination Covers: Killing Annual Ryegrass can be like Trap Shooting

Properly terminating a cover crop in the spring is as important as properly establishing a cover crop in the fall.  Annual ryegrass seems to be the one cover crop that has the most questions about termination. And if you don’t kill it at the correct growing stage, the chance of killing it as it is jointing and forming a seed head goes way down. I have a few pointers to help take the stress out of terminating annual ryegrass. It is important to observe annual ryegrass as it comes out of dormancy and starts growing. The day on the [...]

By |March 31, 2015|
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