Resource Conserving Crop Rotations - 2010 Ranking Period 2

Perennial Grasses and Legumes

Warm Season Grasses

• Bermudagrass
• Big Bluestem
• Caucasian Bluestem
• Eastern Gamagrass
• Indiangrass
• Little Bluestem
• Switchgrass

Cool Season Grasses

• Kentucky Bluegrass
• Orchardgrass
• Perennial Ryegrass
• Reed Canarygrass (site specific)
• Smooth Bromegrass
• Tall Fescue
• Timothy

Legumes

• Alfalfa
• Red Clover
• White Clover
• Birdsfoot Trefoil
• Ladino Clover

Forage, Seed, and Green Manures
(planted into a perennial grass or
legume in the last year)

• Annual Ryegrass
• Barley
• Cereal Rye
• Wheat
• Oats
• Pearl Millet
• Foxtail (German) Millet
• Sudangrass
• Sorghum - Sudangrass (Sudax)
• Buckwheat

Cover Crops
following Annual Crops

Winter Annual Grasses

• Annual Ryegrass
• Spring Oats
• Winter Barley
• Winter Rye
• Winter Wheat
• Triticale

Winter Annual Legumes

• Austrian Winter Pea
• Bigflower Vetch
• Common Vetch
• Hairy Vetch
• Crimson Clover

Winter Annual Legume/Grass Mixtures

• Hairy Vetch
  -And add: Rye, Wheat, or Barley
• Austrian Winter Pea
  -And add: Rye, Wheat, or Barley
• Crimson Clover
  -And add: Rye, Wheat, or Barley
• Crimson Clover and Triticale

Summer Annuals

• Sudangrass
• Sorghum - Sudangrass (Sudax)
• Pearl Millet
• Foxtail (German) Millet

Winter Annual Brassicas

• Kale
• Winter Rape (or Canola)

High Residue Crops

• Corn (Grain)
• Sorghum (Grain)
• Winter Barley (Grain)
• Winter Rye (Grain)
• Winter Wheat (Grain)
• Spring Oats

Grass and Legume Mixtures

Cool Season Grasses

• Kentucky Bluegrass
• Orchardgrass
• Perennial Ryegrass
• Reed Canarygrass (site specific)
• Smooth Bromegrass
• Tall Fescue
• Timothy

Legumes

• Alfalfa
• Red Clover
• White Clover
• Birdsfoot Trefoil
• Ladino Clover