No-till, No-herbicide Planting of Spring Vegetables Using Low Residue Winter Killed Cover Crops

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:
Dr. Ray Weil
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University of Maryland
Co-Leaders:
Natalie Lounsbury
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University of New Hampshire

Annual Reports

Information Products

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
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