Interests: Beef, Dairy, Cover Crops, Ag Policy, Organic Row Crops, Timber, Marketing, Agribusiness, Alfalfa
Published Jun 15, 2018
But have you thought about rotating your cover crops? Should you be using the same cover crop species back to back, year after year?Dave Robison, who runs the blog PlantCoverCrops... Avoiding clubroot with rotationRobison warns that if you continually utilize brassicas in your cover crop mix, you need to consider doing some level of rotation... Robison saw first hand how this disease can impact crop growth when he did some work with Ed Ballard, now retired University of Illinois Extension Animal Systems Educator... “We need to be cautious to do some level of rotation, so that maybe not every single year includes a brassica,” Robison says... Robison acknowledges that growing a brassica back to back does not automatically result in clubroot, especially if a grower’s only seeding a couple pounds per acre...
Categories: Cover Crops
Interests: Beef, Dairy, Cover Crops, Ag Policy, Organic Row Crops, Timber, Marketing, Agribusiness, Alfalfa
Published Jun 15, 2018
But have you thought about rotating your cover crops? Should you be using the same cover crop species back to back, year after year?Dave Robison, who runs the blog PlantCoverCrops... Avoiding clubroot with rotationRobison warns that if you continually utilize brassicas in your cover crop mix, you need to consider doing some level of rotation... Robison saw first hand how this disease can impact crop growth when he did some work with Ed Ballard, now retired University of Illinois Extension Animal Systems Educator... “We need to be cautious to do some level of rotation, so that maybe not every single year includes a brassica,” Robison says... Robison acknowledges that growing a brassica back to back does not automatically result in clubroot, especially if a grower’s only seeding a couple pounds per acre...
Categories: Cover Crops
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