Two University of Wisconsin researchers say there is a way to grow alfalfa between the corn rows successfully.
Mark Renz and Marta Moura Kohmann have developed the guidelines to make it work. Renz says, “We plant the corn, come back before V1 and plant alfalfa in the rows in between, do stuff to that alfalfa to get it to survive underneath that really dense corn canopy, and then we harvest that corn silage for feed.”
Renz says the alfalfa not only helps suppress weeds, but it grows as an established cover crop in the fall and a full crop the following year without the usual establishment year yield losses.
