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Cover Crop Recipes: Post Wheat, Going to Soybean or Corn: Use Oats and Radish Mix

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August 23, 2019 - Dean Baas<baasdean@msu.edu>, Christina Curell<curellc@msu.edu>, Paul Gross, Monica Jean<atkinmon@msu.edu>, Philip Kaatz<kaatz@msu.edu>, MSU Extension, Elizabeth H. Schultheis, MSU

The following recipe provides an introductory approach to integrating a cover crop into a wheat rotation with soybean or corn. Planting oat and radish cover crops after wheat (see Figure 1) and ahead of a soybean or corn cash crop is an easy way to introduce cover crops into your rotation because these cover crops both winterkill and add important diversity to agricultural fields.

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