A farmer in southeast Minnesota is thrilled with the growth of his cover crops this fall. 

Ed McNamara, a corn and soybean grower from Goodhue County, says a highboy was used to seed triticale into standing soybeans around the end of August.

“The beans, you know it dried out so fast the leaves dropped (and) covered it up. That looks great (now). The cover crop looks better than my lawn looks.”

He tells Brownfield there were a couple reasons he went with triticale instead of rye.

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