Project Overview
LNE11-312
Project Type: Research and Education
Funds awarded in 2011: $154,405.00
Projected End Date: 12/31/2015
Region: Northeast
State: Maryland
Project Leader:
Co-Leaders:
No-till, No-herbicide Planting of Spring Vegetables Using Low Residue Winter Killed Cover Crops
Annual Reports
Information Products
(Website)
(Article/Newsletter/Blog)
Commodities
- Vegetables: beets, broccoli, carrots, celery, garlic, greens (leafy), leeks, onions, parsnips, peas (culinary), radishes (culinary), rutabagas, sweet corn, turnips, brussel sprouts
Practices
- Crop Production: conservation tillage
- Education and Training: extension, on-farm/ranch research, participatory research
- Farm Business Management: budgets/cost and returns
- Natural Resources/Environment: carbon sequestration, indicators
- Pest Management: competition, mulches - killed, physical control, mulching - vegetative, weed ecology
- Production Systems: organic agriculture
- Soil Management: green manures, organic matter, soil analysis, nutrient mineralization, soil physics, soil quality/health