It can also be overseeded into soybeans at leaf drop. Overseeding into corn or soybeans is only recommended when rye is being sown as a cover crop or green manure crop because of problems with Hessian Fly. In addition to selling rye seed to local landowners, rye can also be marketed to flour mills. There are several bread products that can be marketed to North American consumers that are baked using a combination of rye and wheat flour. There are also breads made primarily from rye flour that can be marketed to European consumers.
Winter rye is often a more profitable crop than oats or barley.
With local incentives, rye can be more profitable than wheat for farmers who market their wheat crop at harvest. This is especially true in fields where winter damage of wheat tends to be a problem. In Ontario researchers have found rye to be one of the most consistent yielding crops on sandy soils. It has also proven to be more resistant to lodging and diseases than other small grain crops. There are no recent MSU rye variety trials results available.