Enhanced Seed Bed
How it Pays: It's the Earlier Crop Planting!
Unlike most other cover crops commonly used, Tillage Radish® won't complicate or delay spring field operations. Because it winterkills in most areas, it does not need to be killed or incorporated to prepare a spring seedbed. When conditions are favorable, the field will be ready for direct planting.
Because Tillage Radish leaves the soil surface weed free, punctured by large root holes, and covered by very thin and sparse residue, the seedbed soil warms up and dries out considerably faster in early spring than do soils covered by either winter weeds or a growing cover crop. The warmer, drier soil and the elimination of the need for tillage can allow earlier spring planting.
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Tillage Radish soils
are drier for earlier planting[1]
Volumetric Moisture Content
Tillage Radish soils
are warmer for earlier germination[2]
Daily Range of Soil Tempuratures at 2" depth(ºF)
Notes
[1] [2] Data provided by the Dept of Agriculture, University of Maryland.
