Spring-Planted Winter Rye and Triticale for Weed Control

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0:14 All right Bayless, let's talk about a couple of wintery annual grasses now planted in the spring. It's not necessarily what you would do as a general practice, and you know a lot of times in these plots we want to put some

0:27 Things out here that don't necessarily work to just show and kind of remind ourselves why we don't always do it but at the same time we learn. We always learn some things. At times you find something yes it has different application so we've got two of the most.

0:41 Popular all planted cereal grains here. We've got Elbon rye over here and we've got our 8 13 winter triticale here and you know these don't look very good and that's kind of to be expected because these are winter and the cereals planted in the spring they didn't fertilize and.

0:59 So we wouldn't expect a tremendous amount of growth, which is what we're seeing. I'll talk about the elbe on just a little bit here first. So as a general rule it hasn't really headed out. There's a few of these and elbon will always shoot a few heads out.

1:14 Very tough crop, it always survives. It's always gonna put a few seed heads, but for the most part it's growing somewhat cross-strait. It hasn't really shot up and headed out and that's what we would expect. So I wouldn't really be putting these in if I...

1:30 Was looking at maximizing my porridge, but if all I wanted to do is control weeds and didn't want to have a lot of stuff without their determinate, that might not be a bad thing. That's a plant out there in the spring because, you know, I don't have this it.

1:42 It hasn't used as much moisture because it's not as big as it's like the notes and some of the stuff we'll look at later but yet I've got some pretty decent weed control.

1:51 Now the 8:13 is definitely taller than the Elbon and the reason for that is.

2:14 That we'll look at later sir, just fully facultative—it can go either way—but we are seeing more growth on this, and what we would see with a true-blue winter timeframe, it's a winter crop. Most winter hardy crop will grow and say why would you plant that spring if you.

2:36 Look at that. If your goal you have one goal and that's to provide big weed control. That looks great. I mean that's a very dense canopy. You can put something like that together really cheap and create a mulch that didn't use.

2:56 A lot of moisture. You know this year it was very difficult to get anything planted in the fall. You say, 'Oh no, I'm out of my weed control plans.' No, you can still plant rye in the spring, makes a very good turtle. Yeah, and spray it down and plant soybeans.

3:16 Into that you're still got your weed control so you just have to have realistic expectations. Don't plant that in March and think that you can graze it. Plant it, important thing that you can control some weeds and then spray it out.

3:31 Still has some utility.