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Organic Cash Grain Yields and Economics - Presentation at NOFA-NY Winter Conference 1-27-13
Economic Performance of Organic Vegetable Cropping Systems
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Cover crop planting and termination dates
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This project is a collaborative effort between scientists and organic farmers. (See People.) Our intent is to find methods for further improving organic cropping systems. By comparing cropping systems that use different approaches to building soil quality, the project will reveal effects of compost, cover crops and tillage practices on soil physical and biological quality. It will also reveal interactions between soil quality and weed, insect, and disease management. We also expect to identify practices that assist in transition from conventional to organic management.
The approach of the project is to duplicate the essentials of innovative and very well managed organic vegetable and grain farms on experiment station fields where the systems can be studied intensively. These exemplary systems will also be compared to variations that represent:
- more typical organic practices
- practices that capture essential aspects of the exemplary systems, but are more easily adopted by other growers
- practices that push the exemplary system the "next step"
A web- and field-based course based on the experiments will provide in-depth information on how organic systems work. (See Learn with us.)
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