Allan-- I will be interested to hear more details about the slurry. We don't have animals because of the day jobs, but usually end up with about 50 acres of this type of rye every year due to cover cropping before soybeans.
Usually, we mow it after it has headed out since this kills it, and then plant into the stubble. But I don't think we are getting much fertility "value" from the stalks at this point. I have heard others recommend that we shoudl disk it in a couple of times earlier in the srping to get the value from green manure. But this doesn't fit into the ridge system, which we make in the fall. (The theory is that far fewer weeds germinate in the spring without srping tillage.) I have also seen rye rolled to kill it, and then tomatoes planted into the yellow straw--but you probably don't have acres of tomatoes either...Dorothy __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com
