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Quantifying soil quality in a horticultural-cover cropping system
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This study compared 3 soil quality tests in a vegetable system with cover crops after 6 years. Compared to other commercial soil quality tests, a weighted-approach which only used measurements that detected differences, provided the most accurate score. Organic matter, evolved NH3-N, CO2-C, water extractable organic C, and pH were key measurements. Cover crops improved soil quality and tomato marketable fruit yield.
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.05.039
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Long-Term Impacts Of Cover Crops
State-of-the-art experiment at Ridgetown comparing several different cover crop monocultures and mixtures to no cover crop in mixed vegetable-grain crop
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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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