10/13/2025
TEN REASONS TO CONSIDER RYE GRAIN THIS FALL:
1. Reduces w**d seed germination (allelopathic effect).
2. Provides significant organic material for soil improvement (up to 3-5 tons per acre if grown to maturity).
3. Reduces or prevents soil erosion in fall and spring.
4. Supplies nutrients to the following crops (good scavenger of surplus nitrogen and other nutrients, reducing nitrate leaching by tying up nitrate in rye plant material and making it available to following crops).
5. Very winter hardy.Cereal rye
6. Easy to establish.
7. Germinates quickly down to 34 degrees soil temperature.
8. Provides structural support for an additional legume cover crop, such as hairy vetch.
9. Establishes well without seed coverage by soil, as long as the soil is moist enough.
10. On wet, clay soils, rye can help reduce excess spring soil moisture.
