Project Overview
FNC07-662
Project Type: Farmer/Rancher
Funds awarded in 2007: $17,925.00
Projected End Date: 12/31/2008
Region: North Central
State: Michigan
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Commodities
- Agronomic: soybeans, wheat
Practices
- Crop Production: double cropping, intercropping, no-till, relay cropping
- Education and Training: demonstration
- Energy: energy conservation/efficiency
- Farm Business Management: value added
- Production Systems: general crop production
- Soil Management: green manures
- Sustainable Communities: sustainability measures
Proposal summary:
Modified relay intercropping is a cropping system sometimes used in areas where double-cropping is not possible but which allows producers to harvest a wheat crop and soybean crop from the same field in the same year by planting soybeans between wheat rows approximately one month prior to wheat harvest. We will be investigating whether modified relay intercropping is compatible with the growing conditions of south0central Lower Michigan by slightly modifying traditional farming equipment and conduction on-farm experiments where this system is compared to a conventional wheat production system.
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