Managing Cover Crops Profitably (3rd Ed. )
Managing Cover Crops Profitably (3rd Ed. )

Author: Andy Clark

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2008-07

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1437903797

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Cover crops slow erosion, improve soil, smother weeds, enhance nutrient and moisture availability, help control many pests and bring a host of other benefits to your farm. At the same time, they can reduce costs, increase profits and even create new sources of income. You¿ll reap dividends on your cover crop investments for years, since their benefits accumulate over the long term. This book will help you find which ones are right for you. Captures farmer and other research results from the past ten years. The authors verified the info. from the 2nd ed., added new results and updated farmer profiles and research data, and added 2 chap. Includes maps and charts, detailed narratives about individual cover crop species, and chap. about aspects of cover cropping.

Winter Field Peas: Their Value as a Winter Cover and Green-Manure Crop (Classic Reprint)
Winter Field Peas: Their Value as a Winter Cover and Green-Manure Crop (Classic Reprint)

Author: Harry Nelson Vinall

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-08

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 9780428583354

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Excerpt from Winter Field Peas: Their Value as a Winter Cover and Green-Manure Crop An importation of the Gray Winter field pea (s. P. I. No. 1486) was received by the United States Department of Agriculture in December, 1898. This seed was purchased by W'. T. Swingle of the department, from vilmorin-andrieux Cc., Paris, France, and was described by them as being more hardy than the spring field peas, better suited to dry and gravell}7 lands, and usually sown in September or October. In testing it, however, the suggested date of seeding was not observed, and the variety was grown in com parison with other field peas as a spring-sown crop in the northern part of the United States. Under these conditions it appeared to be of little value. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Evaluating the Performance of Winter Peas as Dual-Use Crops for Both Cover Crop and Profit Crop
Evaluating the Performance of Winter Peas as Dual-Use Crops for Both Cover Crop and Profit Crop

Author: Emmanuel Kwame Brefo

Publisher:

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Cover crops play a significant role in improving and maintaining good soil health quality. However, there are often some agronomic challenges associated with establishing cover crops successfully. In Northeastern regions of USA, abiotic stressors such as cold affects the establishment of winter cover crops. Using both field trial and laboratory methods I investigated the possibility of growing improved winter peas as a cash cover crop in Northeastern regions of USA. My results yielded no significant difference in winter survival between winter pea types of forage quality that have been known to have cold hardiness traits, or in winter peas that have been bred to have edible traits for the food quality market. In two field trial seasons of 2021/2022 and 2022/2023, almost all varieties reached their reproductive stage in the first week of June when seeded the previous year around the end of September. My results show that although peas are a viable overwinter cover crop, planting them as a double crop can be challenging. Reported barriers to cover crop adoption such as high seed cost and time constraints cannot easily be solved by suggesting double cropping with winter peas due to their late maturity date. The maturity date will not allow dry or fresh pea harvest in many on-farm settings in Vermont. Future studies may explore the feasibility and market demand for growing winter peas or other cold hardy species as a double crop for other economic use.