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Here’s a field of nitro-boost I planted on April 25th. It’s heavy in legumes and soil builders. I really like the diversity of this mix and how well it’s doing.

How did you plant it? No till drill after spraying the fall planting?

I drilled into the standing crop from winter, and sprayed the following day.

Looks amazing. Al definitely knows how to establish a good seed blend.

What herbicides did u spray with and what amount/type of fertilizer. I am planting a similar mix and am late as usual. I have both a Nutgrass and Sicklepod problem I started working on this year and did not get started soon enough.

I used 3.5 oz of glyphosate per gallon at 22 gallons per acre. I have not applied any fertilizer at all. I’m testing a couple plots with regenerative techniques using blend rotations without any fertilizer.

Looks good!.....The more SOM you build up the better things will run without fertilizer…..The toughest application to skip is the nitrogen in the fall on your cereal grains

This has lablab, field peas, cowpeas, soybeans, sunn hemp and vetch in it. I’m hoping it adds the needed nitrogen for the fall crop.

The problem comes in with the soil temps……mineralization shuts down……You’re eventually going to be running off of a nutrient reserve that’s held in the SOM but the processes that are occurring that makes those things go round and round kinda goes dormant as soil temps cool off and then speeds back up in the spring. I’m sure you’ve noticed how things hit a point in spring where the cereals suddenly green up and jump…..That’s the threshold where soil temps have reached a point that mineralization/decomposition starts cranking back up.

Pursuit (Imazethapyr) or Basagran for nutgrass based on that mix. That won’t help with sicklepod so you’re still looking at Butyrac or something else.

I had it work at the lease years ago. The mix I had was some guy on QDMA forum and I followed his recommendations which worked well. I also used pelletized lime in place of fertilizer. Can’t recall the specifics but it was along the lines of organic farming and this regenerative agriculture is making a comeback it seems. I’ve read up on permaculture and silvopasture and seems to work on smaller scale which is perfect for hunting club/landowners.