Winter Cover Crop Planting (Video & Transcript)

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Number of speakers: 1 Craig Turczynski
Duration: 2 min 40 sec

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Winter Cover Crop Planting

Craig: ” Hi, this is Craig with Country Work Force and we’re just finishing up a job here planting a field of winter peas, Austrian winter pea and along with dried molasses. It is fall planting and you can see here that we use a low till method but we’ve got really good seed to soil contact without majorly uprooting the natural grass that is already here. The Bermuda and Blue Stem and some of the needle grass here that is already existing. The Austrian winter pea is a legume and it comes inoculated with a Rhizobium of bacteria that will allow it to fix nitrogen from the air and it makes a very good cover crop. It can also be baled and foraged by cattle. Horses don’t seem to care much for it, but deer also like it so it makes a very good food plot if you’re trying to attract deer. The plan for this field will be to allow it to grow up and fix nitrogen and then provide a good cover crop that will go back into the ground come spring. So it is very winter hardy and you’ll get a good amount of growth here. Maybe October and November, after the frost it will pretty much stay dormant and won’t grow to much after that until late February and then February, march and April you get a lot of good growth off it as well. In preparation for the spring planting season. the dried molasses helps simulate the biology of the soil. It is also great for controlling the ants. It provides a little bit of nitrogen and potassium into the soil as well.”

“So that is it. I just wanted to show you one of the jobs we are working on now. So that is it, please check back with us.”