State-of-the-art experiment at Ridgetown comparing several different cover crop monocultures and mixtures to no cover crop in mixed vegetable-grain crop rotations.
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- Theme: Crops
- Tags: corn, cover crops, cucumber, grain crops, nitrogen, soybean, vegetable crops
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Measuring soil health improvements with cover crops in vegetable production
Chahal, I. and Van Eerd, L.L. 2019. Quantifying soil quality in a horticultural-cover cropping system. Geoderma 352: 38-48. doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.05.039.Research summary
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OMAFRA, Grain Farmers of Ontario, Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers
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