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Both of these are located an hour from my farm. I know people who work at each company.
You need to search for farm field crop seed suppliers in your area. If you still can't locate any, go to a crop farmer and ask them who there supplier is. Not always a brick and morter shop, often a salesperson that represent your area.
Albert Lea Seeds in southern MN is a really neat seed supplier, they cater to oddball seeds as well as a garden section and a good business of organic and regular farm crop seed.
they do ship, so it might be worth checking out. They have many individual cover crops, and several interesting blends.
many cover crops end up having a small grain or grass or clover seed in them which are just being harvested now, need to be cleaned and tested and bagged.
so, your timing might be poor to need it ‘right now’, could be the issue?
cover crops have become popular again, so are in big demand.
I don't know your area, but my local Ace carries 30-50lb bags of various cover crops. Same with Tractor Supply. But if I understand what you're trying to do, they may not have sufficient variety - they usually just have alfalfa and a couple varieties of clover.
You might find what you want at sporting goods stores. Deer forage crops can be used as cover crops. I have seen clover mixes, radishes, chickory and mangel beets in various mixtures. Feed stores would have oats. Corn can be used as a cover crop too.
There is enough time yet this fall for it to grow enough to keep weeds from growing and keep the soil from washing away in the fall rain. The frost will kill it and provide ground protection through the winter and can be tilled in next spring. It just depends on your purpose for growing a cover crop.
Wildlife corn is available in 20 and 40 pound bags. I usually get 20 pounds each fall for the wild rabbits. They never eat all that.
The cheap birdseed has a lot of those red seeds in it. It's some sort of grassy grain. I just pulled a bunch of those sprouts from under my bird feeder.
Just thinking outside the box a bit for alternative solutions.
That red seed is probably red Milo. I planted some white millet this year just for fun and it has been pretty interesting, it is producing seed heads now.
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