This one comes to us from Carl Clark on TikTok. The central Illinoisan planted soybeans into 5-foot-tall ryegrass, before terminating it with Roundup. No residuals. No post-emergence applications. He says the beans have been hard to cut and there’s some waterhemp scattered about. He thought he messed up, but let’s see what the yield monitor says.

“Our yields this year have been ranging anywhere from low 60s up to mid 80s. And this might actually be my best-looking field as we go along. I tell you what, I am kind of impressed. I normally like to move pretty quick. I don’t like the density. I have to run my head back a little bit further than I like. I hate dealing with large crops. There might be something to this cover crop. This actually looks pretty decent. Kind of a mess. This has been planted to a new cover. We had an airplane come in and do oats and radishes going to corn crop next year.”  

And if you have a video or story you’d like to see on the program, shoot me an email — Nnewman@LessiterMedia.com. Thanks for tuning in, we’ll see you in a couple weeks, but before we go, let’s send it out to Marion Calmer in Alpha, Ill., for a preview of his 2025 National No-Tillage Conference presentation.

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