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| I have used a cultipacker to effectively crimp cereal rye both before and following planting of organic no-till soybeans.
If the rye is sufficiently mature (after pollination is finished), it doesn't take a fancy roller-crimper to flatten the rye.
As emphasized by Blusteryknoll, the much bigger challenge is supplying corn with adequate N when rye has grown large enough for termination by crimping.
A high rate of manure (containing >> 200 lbs of available N) applied in the fall + high SOM level will not normally supply enough N to meet the needs of a corn crop when a rye cover crop has taken up almost all available N.
Assuming that the clover you mentioned is medium red clover, it will not be terminated by any type of crimping so you will be planting corn into a living stand of clover.
Organic no-till corn normally results in yields much less than 100 bu/a and this is with an available N source applied in-season.
Joel
WIU Agriculture
Edited by jbgruver 4/1/2025 18:55
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Anyone ever terminated a rye cover crop with a cultipacker?
