And let’s wrap things up with our Photos of the Week, coming to us this week from the Allison Organic Research and Demonstration Farm at Western Illinois University. 

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Lots of interesting stuff going on out there. This first one is Turkish okra. The middle zone was no-tilled into rolled peas.

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They had a bad storm July 15, as you can see from this row of Wacther’s True Gold corn bent over just a few days later.

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Here’s a look at medium red clover, sweet clover and Italian ryegrass established by frost seeding into SRW wheat. 

And here’s a photo from Sumo oats harvest on July 19. The oats were drilled March 2 and then frost seeded the following day with red clover at a rate of 10 pounds per acre using a Herd broadcast seeder.

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