Let’s check in with Ryan Shaw now for our Video of the Week. The Marlette, Mich., farmer explains how he’s incorporating cereal rye on all his strip-till acres.  

“This would be like one of our tram lines where our 120 and the other one would be over there. There would be the 12 rows here. We’re making the berms in between where our cereal rye was planted last fall after the soybeans came off. We were just making our seedbed between all that and the idea was to not have a whole bunch of that rye in our berm to start with just because sometimes the roots gave us trouble. If we got into heavy clay, it would almost look like a knife through butter, you could open it and see the wavy coulter but then it was just root mass down there. Leaving it in the 2 rows allows us to make a better seedbed and more comfortable with covering 100% of the acres with the cover crop knowing we won’t have that issue.”  

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