Project Overview
FNC08-738
Project Type: Farmer/Rancher
Funds awarded in 2008: $18,000.00
Projected End Date: 12/31/2009
Region: North Central
State: North Dakota
Project Coordinator:
Linda Grotberg
Prairie Farm Pilot Project
Commodities
- Agronomic: corn, millet, oats, rye, sunflower, wheat, grass (misc. perennial), hay
- Animals: bovine, poultry, goats
Practices
- Animal Production: grazing - continuous, free-range, grazing management, livestock breeding, manure management, mineral supplements, pasture fertility, preventive practices, range improvement, grazing - rotational, stocking rate, watering systems, winter forage, feed/forage
- Crop Production: conservation tillage
- Education and Training: technical assistance, demonstration, display, farmer to farmer, mentoring, networking, on-farm/ranch research, participatory research, study circle, workshop, youth education
- Energy: energy conservation/efficiency, energy use
- Farm Business Management: agritourism, budgets/cost and returns, agricultural finance, risk management, value added, whole farm planning
- Natural Resources/Environment: biodiversity, habitat enhancement, indicators, soil stabilization, wetlands, wildlife, carbon sequestration
- Pest Management: allelopathy, competition, cultural control, economic threshold, field monitoring/scouting, integrated pest management, mulches - living, mulching - plastic, prevention, weather monitoring, weed ecology
- Production Systems: transitioning to organic, holistic management, organic agriculture, permaculture, integrated crop and livestock systems
- Soil Management: earthworms, green manures, soil analysis, nutrient mineralization, soil chemistry, soil microbiology, organic matter, soil physics, soil quality/health
- Sustainable Communities: leadership development, local and regional food systems, partnerships, public participation, urban/rural integration, analysis of personal/family life, social capital, social networks, social psychological indicators, sustainability measures
Proposal summary:
This project involves research for weed control in organic no-till cropping systems. The treatments will include crop rotation, grazing cocktail mix cover crops, synergistic companion crops, double seeding, winter broadcast seeding, crimping/rolling biomass before no-till seeding, and solid plant row crops.
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