Winter annual cover crops provide many benefits to Kentucky’s agricultural producers. One particularly important benefit is their contribution towards a program of integrated weed management. While growing, cover crops can suppress both winter annual weeds that emerge in the fall and early-emerging summer annuals in the spring. The ability of cover crops to outcompete and suppress weeds has been linked to the amount of ground that they cover. Species selection (for example, using winter rye or winter wheat), seeding rates, and planting methods all impact the stand establishment and thus the ground cover provided by the cover crop. This trial will compare the weed suppression provided by...