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  • From: robert schuler <sunnfarm AT bellatlantic.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] sorghum-sudan grass as cover crop
  • Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:44:47 -0400

Try mowing it down when its 3 ft tall then broadcast 50 pounds of ammonia
nitrate 34-0-0 roughly $25 worth of N/acre and watch your organic matter
double
for the season. A nice way to convert chemical fertilizer into something
usefull...Bob.

Ken Bezilla wrote:

> We grow sorghum/sudangrass as a summer cover crop. We disc it under when
> it's still green; if we get to it while it's still 5-6' tall, the discer can
> still handle it, but taller than that (it can get up to 8' tall here in a
> summer with decent rain) and the discer can't handle it, and it has to get
> plowed under...
>
> Ken Bezilla
> East Wind Community
> southern Missouri, zone 6b
>
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