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Success with cover crops on Minnesota crop and livestock farm
A south-central Minnesota crop and livestock producer plans to expand her cover crop acres.
Rochelle Krusemark of Trimont says she planted cereal rye into soybean stubble and on corn ground that was chopped for silage last fall.
“We are grazing cows and calves in the bean field. And the cereal rye that’s growing where the corn was and soybeans will be next week, we’re going to chop that and bag it for the cows to eat.”
After a successful first year experimenting with cover crops, the Krusemarks intend to build upon what was seeded in 2016.
“Right now it looks really good. I was just out in the cereal rye this morning with my grandsons, and I’ve got one who’s almost three, and that cereal rye is almost as tall as him. So we’ll be chopping that and utilizing it for feed. And if it goes well, we’ll plant more this fall.”
The Krusemarks raise corn, soybeans, custom finish hogs, and have a cow/calf beef herd.
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