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Farmers and their Innovative Cover Cropping Techniques
Grubinger, Vernon P.
Grubinger, Vernon P.
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http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Abstract
This 70-minute educational video features 10 vegetable farmers in 5 Northeastern states demonstrating and describing a variety of cover cropping techniques including rye, wheat, oats and/or hairy vetch as winter covers; winter rye for strawberry mulch; field peas as a spring cover; hairy vetch and rye strips grown between crops; soil spader for incorporating cover crops; permanent ground cover for wheel tracks; living mulch between plastic mulch; buckwheat, Japanese millet, and Sudex as summer smother crops; long term rotations with cover crops and leaf mulch; white clover strips between crops; and, no-till cover crops. 75 - Hank Bissell, Lewis Creek Farm, Starksboro, VT Winter cover crop: hairy vetch and rye, Winter cover crop: hairy vetch and oats, Inter-seeding winter rye in fall 428 - Will Stevens, Golden Russett Farm, Shoreham, VT Winter cover crop: wheat, Frost seeded red clover, Summer-seeded hairy vetch 730 - Cliff Hatch, Upinngill Farm, Gill, MA Winter and spring cover crop: rye, Delayed berry planting 982 - Eero Ruuttila, Nesenkeag Farm, Litchfield, NH Spring cover crop: field pea and oats, Hairy vetch and rye strips between crops, Cover crops to suppress potato beetles, Soil spader for incorporating cover crops 1498 - Lou Johns and Robin Ostefeld, Blue Heron Farm, Lodi, NY Permanent ground cover for wheel tracks, Drilled field peas and broadcast oats, Mowing hairy vetch and rye 1970 - Lou Lego, Elderberry Pond, Auburn, NY Living mulch cover crops between plastic 2352 - Pooh Sprague, Edgewater Farm, Plainfield, NH Summer cover crop: buckwheat, Summer cover crop: Japanese millet, White clover strips between crops 2705 - Bob Muth, Muth Farms, Williamstown, NJ Long-term rotation with cover crops, Summer cover crop: Sudex, Leaf mulching and cover crops 3155 - Eileen Droescher, Ol’Turtle Farm, Easthampton, MA Permanent beds and cover crop rotation, Sudex undersown with red clover
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Date
2005-01-01