This document discusses using cover crops in organic farming. It notes that crop rotations historically revolved around legumes to fix nitrogen. It then provides information on typical nitrogen fixed by various legume cover crops. The document discusses finding the best cover crop fits within a crop rotation by considering goals like conservation, augmentation, and activation. It provides an overview of characteristics to consider when choosing a cover crop, and suggests matching specific cover crop objectives with suitable species. The document emphasizes the importance of planning cover crops and shares examples of farmer experiences using different cover crops.
Cover Crops Provide Much More than Just CoverRay Weil
This presentation was the Keynote address for the Innovative Farmers of Ontario (Canada) in February 2014. Some slides may not work as well as intended without their animations.
Cover Crops Provide Much More than Just CoverRay Weil
This presentation was the Keynote address for the Innovative Farmers of Ontario (Canada) in February 2014. Some slides may not work as well as intended without their animations.
This presentation provides an overview of the benefits of cover crops, management considerations, cover crop species for Arkansas and Oklahoma, and the economic benefits of cover cropping.
Integrating Cover Crops into Specialty Crops Production; Gardening Guidebook for Kansas ~ Kansas Rural Cente~ For more information, Please see websites below:
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I shared this presentation at the IL Regional Tillage Seminar in Milan IL on 1/27/2011.
Some edits have been made for increased clarity without the commentary.
This presentation provides an overview of the benefits of cover crops, management considerations, cover crop species for Arkansas and Oklahoma, and the economic benefits of cover cropping.
Integrating Cover Crops into Specialty Crops Production; Gardening Guidebook for Kansas ~ Kansas Rural Cente~ For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
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Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
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Huerto Ecológico, Tecnologías Sostenibles, Agricultura Organica
http://scribd.com/doc/239850233
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110
I shared this presentation at the IL Regional Tillage Seminar in Milan IL on 1/27/2011.
Some edits have been made for increased clarity without the commentary.
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7. 133 lbs of K/ac 52 lbs of Ca/ac
Hairy Vetch
3,260 lbs of DM/ac
141 lbs of N/ac
18 lbs of P/ac 18 lbs of Mg/ac
8. Finding the best fit for CCs
within a crop rotation
:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/tcoa/files/breakcrops_orgagr.pdf
9. Conservation Augmentation
3 broad goals of
ecological Activation
management
10. Terminating spring planted oats with a soil finisher
~ 3 weeks before planting corn
GOAL = biological activation
11. Overview of book contents
• Problems and opportunities for over 500 crop
sequences
• Characteristics of more than 60 crops and 70 weeds
• Crop diseases hosted by over 80 weed species
• Modes of transmission for 250 diseases of 24 crops
• Thirteen sample four- and five-year vegetable and
Rotations
grain crop rotations Managing Crop Rotation Chart
should evolve
with key tasks & steps
not revolve
•Sample worksheets and calculations
• Step-by-step procedure for determining crop rotation
plans
12. What to Look For in A Cover Crop
• Fast germination and emergence
• Competitiveness
• Tolerance to adverse climatic & soil
conditions
• Ease of suppression/residue
management
• Fertility/soil quality benefits
• Low-cost
13. Cover crops have many effects!
Feed
livestock
Cover
Crops
Adapted from Magdoff and Weil (2004)
14. Not all are positive
Host
pests
Tie up N
? ?
Become
a weed
Interfere w/
equipment
performance
Suppress
crop growth
Cover
Crops Dry out soil
Prevent excessively
soil
Add cost drying
Increase
management
Adapted from Magdoff and Weil (2004)
15. Matching specific objectives with species
Grazing
brassicas, clovers, small grains, ryegrass, sorghum-sudan
Nutrient Cycling
brassicas, small grains, annual ryegrass
Bio-drilling
brassicas, sugarbeet, sunflower,
sorghum-sudan sweet clover, alfalfa
N-fixation
clovers, vetches, lentil, winter pea, chickling vetch, sun hemp,
cowpea, soybean
Bio-activation/fumigation
brassicas, sorghum-sudan, sun hemp, sesame
16. Key considerations
How will I seed the cover crop?
What will soil temperature and moisture conditions be like?
What weather extremes and field traffic must it tolerate?
Will it winterkill in my area?
Should it winterkill to meet my goals?
What kind of regrowth can I expect?
How will I kill it and plant into it?
Will I have the time to make this work?
What’s my contingency plan—and risks—if the
cover crop doesn’t establish or doesn’t die on schedule?
Do I have the needed equipment and labor?
Start planning now for next fall!
22. Hairy vetch can be successfully planted after
wheat harvest. On the two occasions (out of 18
site-years of the WI Cropping System Trial)
when the red clover failed to establish well,
hairy vetch produced an average of 115 lbs N/a
providing an excellent ―back-up plan‖.
July/August plantings of vetch or
other cover crops are riskier than
frost seeding clover.
26. Klaas and Mary Martens,
organic innovators in
Central NY State, are
reporting excellent results
with frost-seeded
confectionary mustard
ahead of dry beans
32. Where are the soybeans??
Traditional organic weed management
often comes up short during wet years
A strong stand of cereal rye was incorporated
~ 2 weeks before these soybeans were planted
33. Organic No-till?
Less
weed seed
germination
Rodale roller
…but few
options for
weed
termination
Cultimulcher