another rye question

MTC · Apr 19, 2015

Planted winter rye last fall.It is only 2 inches tall.Can I plant corn in it now and spray when the rye is 6 to 9 inches tall? Will that stunt the corn? Thanks

Sparktrician · Apr 19, 2015

I think you ought to kill the the at planting time...corn does not like competition

D beatty · Apr 19, 2015

The gentleman that farms my place comes in and will spray it about 5 or 6 days before he plants.

coonie minnie · Apr 19, 2015

Agree with the post below.

There are some in PA at least that leave rye grow for awhile after planting, but I think mostly with beans following, not corn. Rye can get very competitive, and can have an aleopathic (sort of natural herbicide) effect on followingt crops. I'd spray it at, or prior to, planting of the following crop.

fixerupper · Apr 19, 2015

Spray now. You don't want ANY completion for the corn.

Funtwohunt · Apr 19, 2015

Here in western Nebraska we strip til in to rye we planted last fall. About the time the R/R corn is ready to emerge or has emerged up to 2" or so, we spray it with Roundup and the rye is killed and corn really takes off.

super99 · Apr 20, 2015

What ever you spray to kill the rye will kill the corn also, so you would have to plant Roundup Ready corn in order to spray Roundup to kill the rye. Corn doesn't like completion, I'd spray before planting. I just finished spraying Roundup on my cover crop rye, it's 4 to 6" tall and growing. I'll wait until I can see that I didn't have any skips with the sprayer before I plant. Chris

LAA · Apr 20, 2015

Depends on where your at and the local climate, I notill corn into rye grass and Crimson clover stubble every year and never spray at all but because we can plant so early the corn has made a canopy by early May at the latest and the grass is completely burnt up by June first anyway. There is a lot of benefit to the moisture retentionin of the rye grass sod as well as the Crimson fixes enough nitrogen to cancel out any fertilizer competition.

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