A University of Wisconsin plant sciences specialist says farmers should not let the late harvest stop their cover crop planting plans.
Daniel Smith says many of the corn and soybean crops look okay despite later planting, but that means later harvesting, and later cover crop planting. “The great thing about planting a small grain cover crop is in most cases, we have no problem with it coming up next spring and then we still have adequate biomass for any cover crop benefit.
