An Alternative Weed Strategy

By: Successful Farming Staff

We’re going to be talking more about weeds and how weeds are affecting farmers. And how they need to look at it in a different view going forward because what we’ve been working with right now isn’t working.

Rob Hinton in Virginia, has been actually experimenting with cover crops for a number of years, and as Rob told me, he loves to do on farm trials. He loves to experiment, to see what works and what doesn’t work. He has actually been planting cereal rye to see if they can help suppress weeds. And one thing he tried a couple of years ago was using a roller crimper to actually put down that cover crop and then come back in and plant soybeans.