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Recommended cover crops for new USDA guidelines

A University of Missouri extension agronomist says with new guidelines on when to hay or graze prevent plant acres from the USDA a different approach might be needed.

Rob Myers tells Brownfield if farmers plan to plant before the end of July they should use warm season forage cover crops.

“I would recommend planting things that would be considered warm season forage type cover crops,” Myers says. “So that would be things like sorghum sudangrass, pearl millet, forage sorghums.”

Myers says if farmers are not able to get into their fields to plant until August it would be better to plant cool season cover crops.

“If they find themselves wanting some forage but not getting to it until August, then I would switch form looking at these warm season forages to more cool season ones that will grow well in the fall,” Myers says.

Myers says some of the best options would then be cereal rye, triticale or oats. If it is going to be grazed, he says radishes or turnips might be best. ffd

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