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User: Joe Simmons

Created on: 2007-06-15

Observation Date 2006-05-19

Comment:
In the Biodiversity Study I flail mowed the rye in all replications of treatments B4 and B16, (B4 plots 104, 220, 307, and 404) (B16 plots 101, 210, 308 and 416). Flail mowing was completed with JD 7420(a) tractor and JD 115 flail shredder. Treatment B4 has a three year crop rotation of corn-soybeans-wheat with the use of cover crops. Treatment B4 plots where planted to corn in 2005 and had rye planted after corn harvest in the fall of 2005. Treatment B16 is annually planted to soybeans, no crop rotation, with the use of cover crops. Treatment B16 plots where planted to soybeans in 2005 and had c. rye planted after soybean harvest in the fall of 2005. The decision to flail mow the rye was based on the height and stage of development of the rye. The majority of the rye was between 18-31 inches tall and had developed the seed head. At the time of flail mowing the rye had not pollinated and therefore did not have viable seeds. I was concerned that if we had just chisel plowed some of the rye could have still matured enough to produce viable seeds. We did not want are cover crop of rye to become a weed problem in the annual crops.

Areas:
B16 B4

Observation Type:
Mowing

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