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Pictures show cover crop mix did its job after corn, stopped weeds
A summer cover crop was planted about a week after corn was harvested. The grower planted quickly to avoid giving the weeds a chance to grow up once the corn was gone.
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The daikon radishes have done a great job of opening up pore spaces in the soil. Water infiltration has greatly improved since this field has been in continuous cash crop/cover crop rotation.Justin Ballew, Clemson University Extension
I was in a field this week where a summer cover crop was planted about a week after corn was harvested. The grower planted quickly to avoid giving the weeds a chance to grow up once the corn was gone. A mixture of sorghum-sudangrass, sunflowers, daikon radish, and clay peas was planted and it grew up quite well considering how dry the late summer and fall have been.
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