Sentences with phrase «cover crop»

-- To save yourself even more work, grow a cover crop that will be killed by colder temperatures.

-- The next fall, grow a cover crop in the bed and practice the chop - and - drop method, cutting the plants at ground level and dropping the cut material in the bed to decompose and feed the earth.

Central Virginia About Blog Southern Exposure Seed Exchange offers more than 700 varieties of vegetable, flower, herb, grain and cover crop seeds.

Since only a few companies cover crop insurance, property and motor insurance claims seems to form the bulk in both Orissa and Andhra Pradesh.

This tool from the Midwest Cover Crop Council assists farmers in selecting cover crops to include in row crop production.

Green shoots of cereal rye, a popular cover crop, emerge in a field where corn was recently harvested in Iowa.

* Uses organic waste for compost and plants a cover crop under banana plants to enrich the soil and prevent erosion.

The annual Phacelia tanacetifolia (Lacy Phacelia), used extensively in Europe both as a cover crop and as bee forage, was included in the grass seed to break up the soil mix and act as erosion control.

This publication discusses cover crop management and starter fertilizer considerations for producers interested in organic no - till corn production.

Depending on nitrogen carryover from previous management, additional fertilizer may be required beyond that provided through cover crop mineralization to maximize corn yield.

Planting a cover crop mixture of cereal and legumes can provide the dual benefits of weed suppression and fertility provision.

Rodale Institute's Research Department investigates a number of scientific and regenerative farming issues, including cover crop practices, organic weed management, organic no - till systems, compost use, influences of agricultural practices on water quality, and effects of mycorrhizae and other soil biota on crop and soil health, and yields.

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Rangarajan mentioned new satellite - navigating robots, for example, that boost efficiency and cut soil loss by dispersing seed for a cover crop between rows of corn plants well before the corn is harvested.

I've been to field days and workshops with biological farmers, cover crop practitioners, holistic grazers, (who, to a person, intend to keep improving) and more often than not, someone will show up and claim he is doing better using this or that improvement.

Carroll County farmers have enrolled more than 34,000 acres of farmland this year in the state's Cover Crop Program — a grant funding initiative aimed at improving water quality in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.

In one entry, for example, Jason writes about his work in the garden and expands on the benefits of a cover crop.

It is usually used for silage, grazing, hay, cover crop, and green manure.

Cultivation also serves as a valuable cover crop for protecting and improving soil.

Adams said his cropping system research will begin with a cover crop in spring 2018 and take place on 100 acres of AgriLife Research's Smith - Walker ranch 10 miles south of Vernon.

In late spring 2014, he then «terminated» the cover crop in two different ways: On half the field, Robb used a mower and tiller; on the other half, he used a roller - crimper.

Every cover crop is a little different.

The result is a volunteer, or weedy, cover crop competing with next season's cash crop.

Was it possible to have a cover crop that was big enough to suppress weeds, but not too big that it produced seeds?

The flattened cover crop suppresses weeds and retains soil moisture.

This method — called cover crop - based organic rotational no - till — allows farmers to skip spring tillage and weeding.

But if a cover crop reigns in a field for too long, it might start to produce seeds.

They found that generally, letting the cover crop grow longer produces the best, if not perfect, results.

Williams wasn't sure that asking them to struggle through a layer of cover crop residue would work.

«A bigger cover crop is better at suppressing weeds as a mulch, but that comes with the cost of letting that crop grow longer, restricting the growing season for the corn or soybean.»

However, only about half as much was needed compared to corn grown without a faba bean cover crop.

«Faba fix for corn's nitrogen need: Faba bean cover crop halves added nitrogen requirement.»

Faba bean is an ancient crop increasingly used as a cover crop.

The article, «An early - killed rye (Secale cereale) cover crop has potential for weed management in edamame (Glycine max),» is published in Weed Science.

«The question was: Can we find a cover crop management system that provides some amount of weed suppression without causing a problem for the crop?

A second question was how another source of nitrogen, poultry litter (chicken manure mixed with bedding) affected the cover crop decomposition.

With new insight about potential cover crop benefits and irrigation pitfalls, what still eluded the UC Davis nitrogen sleuths was precisely how nitrate travels once it flows into the soil and through the root zone of various crops.

Poultry litter is often added to agricultural fields in Maryland, and the study tested decomposition of cover crop mixtures with and without poultry litter.

«Farmers can use our results to optimize cover crop management for their specific mulch and nitrogen goals,» she says.

Poultry litter mixed with cover crop residues increased decomposition and nitrogen release.

«We wanted to determine how the composition of the cover crop mixture affects the rate of nitrogen release and the persistence of the mulch,» Poffenbarger explains.

«If everything is done right, probably we can use corn stover without other problems, though it might mean you have to grow a cover crop.»

«Since winter wheat is widely grown as a forage crop or cash crop for grain, seed is readily available, making it a popular choice as a cover crop,» he said.

The two DSSAT crop modules were evaluated using measured data on soil water and crop yield from four treatments: irrigated cotton without a cover crop, irrigated cotton with winter wheat as a cover crop, dryland cotton without a cover crop, and dryland cotton with a winter wheat cover crop at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Station at Chillicothe from 2011 to 2015.

In recent times, winter wheat has been increasingly grown as a cover crop in Rolling Plains cotton production systems.

«We determined the wheat cover crop will not affect the soil water availability nor the yield for the succeeding cotton crop substantially under the simulated conditions,» Ale said.

The study proved winter wheat is a feasible cover crop for Rolling Plains cotton production, said Dr. Srinivasulu Ale, AgriLife Research geospatial hydrologist at Vernon.

The second objective was to use the evaluated modules to assess the long - term effects of growing winter wheat as a cover crop on water balances and seed cotton yield under irrigated and dryland conditions, Ale said.

Planted in the fall as a winter cover crop, rapeseed flowers in the early spring.

This is all thanks to Nick:) One of the tools he uses to spread fertility and cover crop seed is our manure spreader (pictured above), which we were able to purchase last year thanks to a generous grant from the Frontera Farmer Foundation.