COVER CROP MIXES, CONTINUED
Organic Summer CC6
ORGANIC SUMMERMAX CC6
ORGANIC CULTIVATIONMAX CC8
BLEND CC9
Vigorous growing warm-season cover crop mix of summer annual grasses, broadleaves, and legumes blended for maximum summer growth, weed suppression, and soil building. • Ideal for summer fallow soil building, prevent-plant situations, or as a diverse grazing/forage mixture • Competes with any weed and puts on tremendous biomass • Provides good summer grazing/ forage for all soil types • Control at first sign of buckwheat and/or sunn hemp flowers to prevent volunteer seed • Sunn hemp seed is toxic to livestock: introduce grazing animals slowly; sunn hemp plants can get woody and overly fibrous if allowed to grow past first flower (>60 days) • Planting Date: May 30 – Aug. 15 after danger of frost has passed • Seeding: 40-50 lbs. /acre at ½” deep. Drill for best results.
Shade-tolerant blend of organic cover crop species formulated for seeding at last cultivation in corn (V5-V6 stage). • Small-seeded mix for companion planting with corn at last cultivation • Emerges and stays semidormant until corn dies back in fall. Will not impede growth or harvest of corn • Not recommended for interseeding into soybeans as canopy is shady • Best suited for medium to heavy textured soils; will likely struggle on sandy soils without irrigation • Planting Date: June 1 – July 5, V6/last cultivation will depend on planting date and corn maturity. • Seeding: 12-15 lbs./A at ¼” to ½” deep. Time with rain at seeding. Drill or broadcast, but best drilled with specialized interseeding equipment.
Our most popular cover crop legume mixture for nitrogen plowdown produces abundant bio-mass and fixes N for the following cash crop. Positions your fields well for corn the following year. • Adapted to varying soil types and field conditions • Excellent fit for underseeding spring small grains or frost seeding into winter small grains; should not interfere with small grain growth or harvest • Suited for all soil types • Can fix 50-100+ lbs. N/acre: legumes will be at peak N-fixation potential at flowering • Planting Date: Feb. – May; Aug. 1 – Aug. 15. • Seeding: 12-15 lbs. /acre at ¼” to ½” deep. Drill or broadcast.
JUMP-START YOUR SOIL HEALTH
Organic Soybeans* 40%
ORGANIC PLOWDOWN
Organic Alsike Clover* Organic Viking 15% Organic 220 Sorghum Hardy Sudangrass Alfalfa Organic 20% 5% Radish* 20%
Organic Annual Ryegrass* 40%
Organic Med. Red Clover* 20% WWW.ALSEED.COM
BIOMASS + NITROGEN FIX
Organic Yellow Blossom Clover* 20%
Organic Charger Alfalfa 25%
Organic Mammoth Red Clover* 30%
Organic Alsike Clover* 25%
*Variety Not Stated (VNS)
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COVER CROPS
Organic Buckwheat* 40%
COVER CROP INTO CORN