00:00:00 Hi, this is Kelly Garrett. I'm coming to you today with a question that's coming to extreme ag a few times, 00:00:04 so I thought it was worth touching on. And the reason is, why don't I like to use cereal rye in my cover crop? 00:00:11 You know, and I've talked with TJ carts, my, uh, advisor from bio till on it. He's the one that helps out with our cover crop mix 00:00:16 and our rotational grazing. And I don't like to use cereal rye. The reason is I've had some bad experiences 00:00:23 planting green into it. I like to use annual rye grass, or I like to use legumes or brassicas for my cover crop mix. 00:00:29 Because of those bad experiences, tj, um, didn't necessarily agree with it and, and things like that. So he went and did further research on it, 00:00:37 and he came back with some research actually done by Allison Robertson from Iowa State, and it has to do with soil-borne diseases. 00:00:45 We have validated with pattern ag and earth optics that, that we have fusarium, uh, pretty prevalent in my soils. 00:00:52 We're doing things with Mike Evans and calibrated agronomy to try to, uh, uh, battle that fusarium problem. 00:00:59 But the fusarium works with the serial rye to cause a seedling disease. What Allison talks about in her research is the interaction 00:01:07 of a pathogen with the host. The pathogen, of course, is the fusarium. The host, of course, is the serial rye. 00:01:13 The, uh, rye, as we all know, emits a toxin to push away other seeds, things like that. That's the weed suppression you get from a cover crop. 00:01:20 Well win the fusarium and that toxin, or the allopath effect, if I pronounced that correctly, the combination of those makes a seedling disease. 00:01:28 It won't kill the corn, but it does set some of the corn back and there can be a fairly decent yield penalty, which we're trying to avoid. 00:01:35 Until I can get the fusarium under control in my soils, I'm not gonna use cereal rye. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't put cover crops out there. 00:01:42 I still get a tremendous of benefit from those, from carbon sequestration, erosion control, uh, livestock feed, you know, when we're pasturing 00:01:49 the cows and things like that. But again, I'm just moving away from cereal rye, and I think this is worth mentioning 00:01:55 because when we talk about cover crops, cereal rye is kind of the default mechanism we all go to. 00:02:00 There's many other species of plants out there. TJ has helped me wonderfully with those. Um, and great for the cattle, great 00:02:07 for carbon, things like that. You know, uh, uh, I would just suggest that you work with a cover crop professional and, 00:02:14 and see what other mixes are out there. 00:02:16.115 --> 00:02:17.725