Mustard

Mustard as a cover crop:

• Acts as a natural bio fumigant
• Generally winterkills (at 26 degrees F)
• Easy to kill with herbicides and tillage
• Provides alleopathy weed control
• Helps “clean up” problem fields where nematodes are a problem
• Hinders the germination/survival of ryegrass and other cover crops…may be used to clean up a problem cover crop ryegrass field
• New varieties are superior to VNS or wild mustard for nematode or weed control/suppression