Farming Video | Clint Frese’s Corn into Cover Crop Tips

30 May 25 • 1m 4s

Clint Frese from Calibrated Agronomy shares practical, field-tested advice for planting corn into a triticale and wheat blend cover crop. He explains why this mix works well in the spring—it grows slower, giving more flexibility in management. Clint also walks through how reducing seeding rates down to 20 lbs/acre helps warm and dry clay soils for timely planting. Another key takeaway? He's not seeing a return on in-furrow nitrogen when planting this way and skips the traditional 2x2 nitrogen. Stay tuned for follow-ups as the season progresses.

00:00:00 Clint Freeze calibrated agronomy. Gonna show you some tips and tricks to making cover crops work. 00:00:05 Today we're planting corn into a triticale and wheat blend. And reason we choose triticale 00:00:11 and wheat, it doesn't grow excessively in the spring. We feel like we have a bigger window to manage it. Um, it buys us some time, 00:00:17 buys us some things against different weather patterns. The other thing we're doing, um, we've dropped our seeding rate from a normal 40, 35, 40 00:00:26 pounds where we started and we've backed it off to 20 pounds. And what that allows is, um, with our heavy clay soil, 00:00:32 it allows light to get in here and, uh, warm this ground up, dry it out so we can plant timely. 00:00:38 The other thing that I've kind of validated over the last several years, we're not running any two 00:00:42 by two nitrogen on this like we normally would because we have this space between the cover crop and a nice clean furrow where we're planting. 00:00:50 We've not seen an ROI from it. We'll be checking back in on this field, um, as we get, uh, a little farther along. 27 00:00:58.025 --> 00:00:58.915

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