Sarah Noggle - Cover Crop Decision Tool Selector
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Cover Crop Decision Tool Selector - Sarah Noggle, OSU Extension, from the 2020 Conservation Tillage and Technology Conference, held March 3-4, 2020, Ada, OH, USA.
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- 1. Utilizing Cover Crops Sarah Noggle, Paulding County Extension CTC 2020, March 3, 2020
- 2. Cover Cropping for Pollinators and Beneficial Insects available from www.SARE.org
- 3. www.sare.org
- 4. • Easy to carry • Great source of scientific research-based information • Available for $5.50 each • Online ordering at the Purdue Extension Education Store • http://edustore.purdue.edu/item.asp?Item_Nu mber=ID-433 Cover Crops Field Guide – 2nd Edition
- 5. • Part of the Midwest Cover Crops Council (OSU is a part of this) • http://mccc.msu.edu/selector-tool/ • The Midwest Cover Crop Council (MCCC) Cover Crop Decision Tools are web-based systems to assist farmers in selecting cover crops to include in field crop and vegetable rotations. Cover Crop Tool Selector
- 6. Step 1 – Choose Vegetables or Row Crops
- 7. Step 2 – Choose your State and County
- 8. • If choosing a cash crop – choose a plant date and harvest date. • These can be approximations. • Crop choices include: Corn – grain, corn – seed, corn – silage, soybeans, dry beans, wheat, warm season vegetables, cool season vegetables, sugar beets, grain sorghum/milo Step 3 – Choose your cash crop or prevent planting
- 9. • Choices include: Very poorly drained, poorly drained, moderately well drained, well drained, excessively drained, muck – saturated, muck – well drained • Choose Tile: Yes or No • Choose Flooding: No, Brief – up to 7 days, Long – 7 + days Step 4 – Choose the drainage information
- 10. • Optional Step – but up to 3 total goals can be selected. • Goal choices: Nitrogen Source, Nitrogen Scavenger, Soil Builder, Erosion Fighter, Weed Fighter, Good Grazing, Quick Growth, Lasting Residue, Mechanical Harvest Forage Value, Grain/Seed Harvest Value, Interseed with Cash Crop • Goals work by eliminating cover crops that do not have the goal attributes • Ratings occur by 2 – Good, 3 – Very Good, 4- Excellent Step 5 – Choose Goals
- 11. Example
- 12. Select information on individual species or mix
- 13. Includes a drop down menu of additional information
- 14. Information can be printed for your own comparison
- 15. • Sarah Noggle, OSU Extension Paulding County, noggle.17@osu.edu Contact Information
Editor's Notes
- Title: Utilizing Cover Crops Presentation developed by Sarah Noggle, OSU Extension in Paulding County
- This is a free bulletin available from SARE. It lists pollinating attributes of many cover crops. https://www.sare.org/Learning-Center/Bulletins/Cover-Cropping-for-Pollinators-and-Beneficial-Insects Flowering cover crops can fulfill their original purpose as a conservation practice while at the same time providing valuable forage for wild bees and beneficial insects. This added benefit can be significantly enhanced with some fine-tuning of management practices and thoughtful plant selection. This 16-page bulletin will help you use cover crops to encourage populations of pollinators and beneficial insects on your farm while you address your other resource concerns. It begins with a broad overview of pollinator and beneficial insect ecology, then describes cover crop selection and management, how to make cover crops work on your farm, and helpful and proven crop rotations. It will also touch on the limitations of cover crops and pesticide harm reduction, among other topics.
- Managing Cover Crops Profitably, 3rd Edition is a great resource. https://www.sare.org/Learning-Center/Books/Managing-Cover-Crops-Profitably-3rd-Edition Printed version is available for $19 each. You can download the book for free at the above website by choosing Download File under the title. Managing Cover Crops Profitably explores how and why cover crops work, and provides all the information needed to build cover crops into any farming operation. Along with detailed management information on the most commonly used species—including grasses, grains, brassicas and mustards, and legumes—Managing Cover Crops Profitably offers chapters on the role of cover crops in broader topics such as crop rotations, pests and conservation tillage. It also has appendices on seed suppliers and regional experts. “This is the best book I have ever read. It uses science to explain complex concepts, lays out options for different systems and climates, and allows innovative farmers to digest the information and make their own intelligent decisions.” -Wolfgang Rougle, Twining Tree Farm, Cottonwood, Calif. For Midwestern farmers: The information in Managing Cover Crops Profitably formed the foundation of the Midwest Cover Crops Council's Cover Crop Decision Tools, which are interactive, web-based systems to assist farmers in selecting cover crops to include in field crop and vegetable rotations.
- Bulk order of 25 or more at $4.50 each
- The Midwest Cover Crop Council (MCCC) Cover Crop Decision Tools are web-based systems to assist farmers in selecting cover crops to include in field crop and vegetable rotations.
- The tool is located at http://mccc.msu.edu/selector-tool/. Once at this website, producers can choose whether they are raising row crops or vegetable crops.
- Once one has selected row crops or vegetable crops, the second step is to choose their state and then county. This help with 30 years of climatic data to help with freeze and thaw dates in the selection tool.
- Step 3 is to choose either the cash crop the producer is planning to raise or the option of prevent plant. Additionally, growers can choose a plant and harvest date. These can be estimated or approximations for planting and harvest dates. Crop choices include: Corn – grain, corn – seed, corn – silage, soybeans, dry beans, wheat, warm season vegetables, cool season vegetables, sugar beets, grain sorghum/milo
- The fourth step is to add information about soil drainage. The first option is to say whether the soil is: Very poorly drained, poorly drained, moderately well drained, well drained, excessively drained, muck – saturated, muck – well drained. Next producers choose whether the land is tiled. This is a simple yes or no question. Finally producer add some information about flooding. Choices about flooding include: No, Brief – up to 7 days, Long – 7 + days
- Choosing goals is the next step. You can leave this section blank if you are new to cover crops and not sure of goal. You have the option to choose 1, 2 or 3 goals. Goal choices include Nitrogen Source, Nitrogen Scavenger, Soil Builder, Erosion Fighter, Weed Fighter, Good Grazing, Quick Growth, Lasting Residue, Mechanical Harvest Forage Value, Grain/Seed Harvest Value, Interseed with Cash Crop. Once you choose one goal there will be a small number that shows up to the right of the species in the list. These ratings are either 2, 3 or 4. Ratings occur by 2 – Good, 3 – Very Good, 4-Excellent. If the cover crop turns gray with no number, it is not considered a match for the goals one selected. The more goals you have the more elimination of certain cover crops. Each time a goal is added an additional number show up to the right of the cover crop species.
- Goals are highlighted as well as ranked and seeding dates are marked with green, yellow or red bars. Cover crops not suitable for conditions will not be able to be selected. To discover more information about an individual cover crop – click on the name of the cover crop.
- The species has relevant information of crop location, cover crop selection information, planting information, termination information, performance and roles, cultural traits, potential advantages, potential disadvantage, and additional information. Also it links other resources about the specific cover crop selected.
- These are a drop down menu to open the additional information.
- All information can be printed for comparison.
- Contact Information Sarah Noggle, OSU Extension Paulding County, noggle.17@osu.edu