You may have seen this video before but it sounds to me like you're doing something very similar to what these farmers are doing in the video. Basically, you�re just transitioning from a cover crop to a cash crop. You can drill into green standing wheat or rye. I think I�d just let the plot grow up....drill into it, then spray immediately after drilling...terminating last falls plot. The cereal grains in your mix will use up a lot of water when they start going to seed. Its best to terminate them prior to that point and let your new seedlings have that moisture.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWXCLVCJWTU I see your point. If I were planting 10 or 20 acres (enough acres where the deer could not over-browse the beans) then I'd spray and drill or drill and spray within a day or hours. I'm just afraid of spraying and having my beans exposed to deer over-browsing the beans as soon as they pop out of ground. My thought of drilling into an existing herbaceous growth would be to conceal the beans AND allow available browse to take on some of the browse pressure while the beans get up and "branch" and start producing foliage. Then spray.
The plan just may not work on a 4 acre food plot with moderate deer pops.
Yes, I am a fan of Archulta (sp?). He's got the right idea and it makes perfect sense and science backs him up. I used to think that disking my soil to lleh and back and then smoothing out the food plot soil was the best!! By doing some research, I found out that I was killing my soil and in the long run, costing me more money. Seed drills are just so expensive and unless you own one or have access to one close by, they're a pain to transport. Easy to use but lleh of a time getting it to a location that demands travel.
