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UDSA Certified Organic Winter Rye for Cover Crops and Grain Production

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Winter Rye (conventional/nonGMO)
  • Winter(fall) rye is an old favorite.
  • You can grow it as a cover crop and use the grain.
  • Establishes in all types of soil conditions.
  • Plant in early fall after fields or gardens are harvested.
  • Can be frost seeded in early spring.(throw it on top of the snow!)
  • Plow or till under in the spring for soil building.
  • Grain is produced when it reaches maturity.
  • It usually dies back in the heat of summer.
  • Recommended seeding rates vary depending on establishment method. Drilling into tilled soil will require 60-110 pounds of seed per acre. When no-tilling into an existing sod, rates should range between 90-120 pounds per acre. When broadcasting or seeding by air, rates as high as 150 pounds per acre may be needed for a suitable stand. For gardeners this is about 3lbs per thousand square feet.
$7.00/2lbs
$19.00

$29.00
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Organic Winter Rye/Fall Rye
  • Fall/Winter Rye is an old favorite. You can grow it as a cover crop and use the grain or use it as forage. Establishes in all types of soil conditions. Plant in early fall after fields or gardens are harvested. Can be frost seeded in early spring. (throw it on top of the snow!)
  • Plow or till under in the spring for soil building. If it gets tall, cut it down first and then till under. Grain is produced when it reaches maturity. It usually dies back in the heat of summer.
  • Fall/Winter Rye is a traditional winter cereal cover crop grown on lighter soils to control wind erosion and build organic matter. Fall rye can also be used successfully as a forage crop, by grazing in the fall and spring, or by harvesting as haylage in May.
  • Do not confuse cereal rye (Secale cereale) with ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum or L. perenne), which are totally different grass species with quite different characteristics.
  • Fall/Winter Rye is best known for its ability to provide a cover crop that prevents erosion while also providing good weed suppression. Rye is very cold tolerant and is the hardiest and most disease resistant of the winter cereals. Winter/Fall rye has an extensive fibrous root system, can scavenge nitrogen very effectively, and utilizes early spring moisture to grow very rapidly. Winter/Fall rye is earlier and faster growing in the spring than the other winter cereals, including wheat, barley and triticale. It heads the earliest of all these fall-seeded cereals, enabling an earlier forage harvest and more "double crop" options.
  • Recommended seeding rates vary depending on establishment method. Drilling into tilled soil will require 60-110 pounds of seed per acre. When no-tilling into an existing sod, rates should range between 90-120 pounds per acre. When broadcasting or seeding by air, rates as high as 150 pounds per acre may be needed for a suitable stand. For gardeners this is about 3lbs per thousand square feet.
  • Winter Rye is a very winter-hardy fall-planted grain well adapted for green manure, grazing, forage production or grain. It can be grazed deep into the fall, provides excellent weed competition and lots of green manure in the spring. It will germinate down to 35oF and performs better than other winter grains on low fertility soils. It has good feed value as forage with protein levels up to 18% and will yield 35 - 55 bu/acre when harvested as grain.
  • Cover Cropping Information-Click Here

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Please include complete delivery address and phone number in your e-mail if you're writing for a shipping quote on large orders of forage and grain seed. If you don't see the variety you want, call. We have a long list of organic seed available that are too numerous to list. The varieties shown on the web site are those I believe will fit most any requirement but, I know there are nitch environments and *special needs out there.

1 Acre = 43,560sq ft, 4840sq yds or 160sq rods

When ordering seed, plan as far ahead as possible and know as much about the seed you wish to buy before you order it. Each farm has different soil, climates and equipment constraints, and you know best what you need. If you don't, call us and we'll help you make a selection to to the best of our ability. Thanks, John

  • A soil test is recommended before planting. Click here for resources for that.
  • GMO crops are contaminating some farmer's lands and the corporations are tying them up in court preventing them from producing new seed. Download By Clicking Here. Save as much of the organic seed you have as you possibly can and replant it every year.
  • *In addition to our general liability statement relating to uses of the products on this web site we also want to emphasize, when it comes to seed and it's application, we do not make recommendations about what to feed livestock. that is not our area of expertise. We do our best to provide accurate descriptions of the seeds we have available and those are provided to us by the seed houses that bag the product and when we fell it's necessary we post information provided by university extension services about planting rates, climates, growth habits etc but who eats what and how much is not something we get into. It is our expectation that the buyer understands those issues before they purchase the seed and plant it. Fortunately most sate universities have an extension service that will provide people with free or very low cost consultations about animal husbandry and agronomics for every region of the country. They are a great resource and we highly recommend people take advantage of it.

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