Fear and Loathing in the Potato Patch: Controlling Nematodes with Rape Seed Meal and Green Manures

Project Overview

FW98-097
Project Type: Farmer/Rancher
Funds awarded in 1998: $9,910.00
Projected End Date: 12/31/2000
Region: Western
State: Idaho
Principal Investigator:
John O'Connor

Annual Reports

Commodities

  • Agronomic: potatoes, rapeseed

Practices

  • Crop Production: nutrient cycling
  • Education and Training: demonstration, extension, farmer to farmer, on-farm/ranch research
  • Farm Business Management: budgets/cost and returns, agricultural finance
  • Pest Management: biological control, field monitoring/scouting, physical control
  • Production Systems: agroecosystems, holistic management
  • Soil Management: green manures, organic matter, nutrient mineralization
  • Sustainable Communities: infrastructure analysis, social networks, sustainability measures
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