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Cover Crops
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November Cover Crop Walks
November 1, 2011
The Penn State Extension Crop Management Team brings you 8 field walks in November to see and learn about cover crop mixtures after corn silage for supplemental forage, erosion control, soil improvement and nutrient cycling. See crimson clover, annual ryegrass, triticale, forage and grain oats, tillage radish, hairy vetch, and cereal rye planted in various mixtures. Field walks will be held in Blair, Dauphin, Franklin, York, Bucks, Lebanon and Northumberland counties.
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No-till, no-herbicide planting of early vegetable crops into winter-killed, low residue cover crops
June 15, 2011
Even though the challenges of this year’s wet cool spring are starting to pass, NOW is the time to start thinking about early fall cover crops that just might be able to help you get your early spring vegetables started earlier next year. A new project aims to enable earlier vegetable planting in spring without the use of herbicides or tillage though the use of alternative cover crops. Under a grant from Northeast SARE, a team of research scientists, extension agents and farmers from Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey are working to develop new systems of no-herbicide no-till planting of early vegetables into a seedbed prepared by low-residue winter-killed cover crops such as forage radish.
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New Fact Sheet: Potential Opportunities for Interseeding Cover Crops
June 13, 2011
Cover crops can play many important roles in cropping systems that are well recognized: preventing soil erosion, enhancing soil carbon, reducing drought stress, suppressing weeds, minimizing nutrient runoff and providing supplemental forage. Despite these advantages, the establishment of cover crops is often limited by the late fall harvest of the corn or other crops, which leaves little growing season for a functional cover crop to become established. The cost of cover crop seeding can also be an issue with the expense of an added trip across the field and seed costs keeping some crop producers from using the practice.
With increasing needs to limit nutrient runoff and leaching into the Chesapeake Bay watershed, a growing desire to harvest corn stover, and an increasing need to develop strategies for increasing forage production on livestock farms, there is a critical need to develop technologies that overcome the issues with cover crop establishment in corn in our region.
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November Cover Crop Walks
November 1, 2011The Penn State Extension Crop Management Team brings you 8 field walks in November to see and learn about cover crop mixtures after corn silage for supplemental forage, erosion control, soil improvement and nutrient cycling. See crimson clover, annual ryegrass, triticale, forage and grain oats, tillage radish, hairy vetch, and cereal rye planted in various mixtures. Field walks will be held in Blair, Dauphin, Franklin, York, Bucks, Lebanon and Northumberland counties.No-till, no-herbicide planting of early vegetable crops into winter-killed, low residue cover crops
June 15, 2011Even though the challenges of this year’s wet cool spring are starting to pass, NOW is the time to start thinking about early fall cover crops that just might be able to help you get your early spring vegetables started earlier next year. A new project aims to enable earlier vegetable planting in spring without the use of herbicides or tillage though the use of alternative cover crops. Under a grant from Northeast SARE, a team of research scientists, extension agents and farmers from Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey are working to develop new systems of no-herbicide no-till planting of early vegetables into a seedbed prepared by low-residue winter-killed cover crops such as forage radish.New Fact Sheet: Potential Opportunities for Interseeding Cover Crops
June 13, 2011Cover crops can play many important roles in cropping systems that are well recognized: preventing soil erosion, enhancing soil carbon, reducing drought stress, suppressing weeds, minimizing nutrient runoff and providing supplemental forage. Despite these advantages, the establishment of cover crops is often limited by the late fall harvest of the corn or other crops, which leaves little growing season for a functional cover crop to become established. The cost of cover crop seeding can also be an issue with the expense of an added trip across the field and seed costs keeping some crop producers from using the practice. With increasing needs to limit nutrient runoff and leaching into the Chesapeake Bay watershed, a growing desire to harvest corn stover, and an increasing need to develop strategies for increasing forage production on livestock farms, there is a critical need to develop technologies that overcome the issues with cover crop establishment in corn in our region.