The old cereal rye growing in bed of pickup….
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Native Hunter
5 year old buck +
Hippies eat that stuff..................
4wanderingeyes
5 year old buck +
This is in the back of the truck, with a topper on. I can’t believe people can’t grow this stuff. 
SD51555
5 year old buck +
I was rag doll testing some of my winter wheat from the day I mowed it a couple weeks back. I forgot it on my coffee table for a week at the cabin. I came back 5 days later and found this. No sun or soil, just the bag and paper towel. I think I'm gonna have some volunteer wheat. It went 23 for 25.
SD51555
5 year old buck +
There's none of that business up by me anymore this year. I'm expecting to see our low temps starting to break into the 40s soon. It's peak cereal growing weather right now by me. I ran some GDD numbers just now, and I may have hit it just perfectly this year. That is of course if we get normal temps. If it's 70/50 In November instead of 40/20 that all goes out the window.
There's a nifty calculator if you wanna work your cereals planting date backwards.
Growing Degree Days | GreenCast | Syngenta
Tree Spud
5 year old buck +
That's why we wait until 1st/2nd week of September to broadcast. Cooler temps and more reliable rain.
Rit
5 year old buck +
My heavy clay soil destroys winter rye plantings. Sure it will germinate but if those tender new roots don’t find moisture it will not survive let alone thrive. I put down a few hundred pounds 5 days ago because we had rain in the forecast for 4 days. We received the rain but nothing in the forecast for almost 10 days with 90 degree highs in the forecast. I can all but guarantee none of that rye will survive. My soil flat out sucks and makes me want to stop habitat work all together. I drilled the rye and it still more likely than not won’t make it.
S.T.Fanatic
5 year old buck +
There's none of that business up by me anymore this year. I'm expecting to see our low temps starting to break into the 40s soon. It's peak cereal growing weather right now by me. I ran some GDD numbers just now, and I may have hit it just perfectly this year. That is of course if we get normal temps. If it's 70/50 In November instead of 40/20 that all goes out the window.
There's a nifty calculator if you wanna work your cereals planting date backwards.
Growing Degree Days | GreenCast | Syngenta
www.greencastonline.com
I don’t get it. The tool that is
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SD51555
5 year old buck +
You can look up last year's heat units as a guide to what may happen this year. Not perfect, but it'll get ya close. I ran the 2021 dates of August 5th - September 30th, and then counted the units. I think I came up with around 1700. I don't know what the heat units are for my forage cereal, so I'm winging it. I'm using spring wheat as a guide, and assuming mine is about 10-20% longer than spring wheat. I'm aiming for at least 1400, 1700 would be perfect, and if I shoot all the way off the end, I'll still have something.
If I go to far this year, i'll chop off another ten days next year and try again.
4wanderingeyes
5 year old buck +
I planted rye last August, it came up, and then no rain for 2 months, and it died and never came up, so I do understand. This spring my plots were all weeds. It was the first year I had to spray, and lightly disc since about 3- 5 years ago.
tooln
5 year old buck +
Looks like Bob was wishing it was catnip..
b116757
5 year old buck +
August seems extremely late or early depending on if this was meant to be a spring of fall planting?? Why did you choose to plant in August?
chucker66
5 year old buck +
I always plant rye in August in NW Wisconsin. Rye to me is the deer hunters best friend, at least in NW Wis. It is green well into December even under a foot of snow. Then in the Spring its the first green thing, even before clover. Then it grows tall, suppresses weeds and provides for some fawn c over. Then finally when it heads out and when I roll it I get more free seed and a thick layer of mulch for my next fall crop of either brassica's or releasing clover I planted with the Rye. That's my 2 cents but it works really great for me being in the frozen tundra of Wisconsin.
Chuck
Chuck
SD51555
5 year old buck +
Yeah, he shot right over to that when we got there. There was a leaf sticking out of the bag and he gobbled it right up.
