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INOCULANT SUPPLIERS LiphaTech Inc. (Nitragin inoculants) 3101 W. Custer Ave. Milwaukee,WI 53209 414-462-7600 800-558-1003 fax 414-462-7186 cs1@execpc.com http://www.liphatech.com inoculants for major/minor temperate, tropical climate legumes Urbana Laboratories P.O. Box 1393 310 S.Third St. St. Joseph, MO 64502 816-233-3446 800-892-2013 fax 816-233-8295 urbana@ponyexpress.net inoculants for major/minor temperate climate legumes APPENDIX E FARMING ORGANIZATIONS WITH COVER CROP EXPERTISE This list is for information purposes only. Inclusion does not imply endorsement, nor is criticism implied of organizations not mentioned. Note: CC denotes cover crop(s) or cover cropping. ORGANIZATIONS—NORTHEAST The Accokeek Foundation 3400 Bryan Point Road Accokeek, MD 20607 301-283-2113 fax 301-283-2049 Accofound@accokeek.org http://www.accokeek.org land stewardship and ecological agriculture using CC Center for Sustainable Agriculture 590 Main St. Burlington,VT 05405 802-656-5459 fax 802-656-8874 susagctr@zoo.uvm.edu http://www.uvm.edu/~susagctr Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage P.O. Box 1745 Easton, MD 21601 410-822-5100 fax 410-822-4016 info@cheswildlife.org http://www.cheswildlife.org CC in organic & sustainable farming systems; consulting & implementation in Mid-shore Md area as they relate to farming & wildlife Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) P.O. Box 419 114 W. Main St Millheim, PA 16854 814-349-9856 fax 814-349-9840 info@pasafarming.org http://www.pasafarming.org on farm CC demonstrations 170 MANAGING COVER CROPS PROFITABLY
SARE Northeast Region Office University of Vermont 10 Hills Building Burlington,VT 05405-0082 802-656-0471 fax 802-656-4656 nesare@zoo.uvm.edu http://www.uvm.edu/~nesare/index.html ORGANIZATIONS—NORTH CENTRAL Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS) University of Wisconsin-Madison 1450 Linden Drive Madison,WI 53706-1562 608-262-5200 fax 608-265-3020 kmartint@facstaff.wisc.edu http://www.wisc.edu/cias/ CC resource locator in Wisconsin/ Upper Midwest Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC) 1220 Potter Drive, Rm 170 West Lafayette, IN 47906 765-494-9555 fax 765-494-5969 ctic@ctic.purdue.edu http://www.ctic.purdue.edu conservation tillage series fact sheets provider Land Stewardship Project 2200 4th Street White Bear Lake, MN 55110 612-653-0618 fax 612-653-0589 lspwbl@landstewardshipproject.org http://www.misa.umn.edu/~lsp/ Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture Iowa State University 209 Curtiss Hall Ames, IA 50011-1050 515-294-3711 fax 515-294-9696 leocenter@iastate.edu http://www.ag.iastate.edu/centers/leopold support research, demos, education projects in Iowa on CC systems SARE North Central Region Office University of Nebraska-Lincoln 13-A Activities Bldg. P.O. Box 830840 Lincoln, NE 68583 402-472-7081 fax 402-0280 ncsare@unl.edu http://www.sare.org/ncrsare/ ORGANIZATIONS—SOUTH Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (ATTRA) P.O. Box 3657 Fayetteville,AR 72702 1-800-346-9140 http://attra.ncat.org/ ATTRA is a leading information source for farmers and extension agents thinking about sustainable farming practices Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization ECHO 17430 Durrance Rd. North Ft. Myers, FL 33917 941-543-3246 fax 941-543-5317 echo@echonet.org http://www.echonet.org/ provides technical information and seeds of tropical cover crops ORGANIZATIONS 171
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$19.00 Managing Cover Crops Profita
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SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE NETWORK THE
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book represent
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FOREWORD Cover crops slow erosion,
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HOW TO USE THIS BOOK Think of this
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BENEFITS OF COVER CROPS Cover crops
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decompose quickly, especially in wa
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Expect excessive field traffic arou
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5. Settle for the Best Available Co
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ORGANIC MATTER ADDITIONS The benefi
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Cover Crops Can Stabilize Your Soil
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generally a good idea to kill a leg
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• For perennial legumes that have
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MANAGING PESTS WITH COVER CROPS By
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The farmers get weed control by fla
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insects. This approach has been use
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• Subterranean Clover (Trifolium
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does no direct tillage, but aggress
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eplace the cover crop before beans,
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as buckwheat, cowpeas, sorghum-suda
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the couple harrows every two to thr
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Start Where You Are In many instanc
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INTRODUCTION TO CHARTS The four com
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pH Preferred. The pH range in which
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Chart 1 TOP REGIONAL COVER CROP SPE
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Chart 2 PERFORMANCE AND ROLES conti
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Chart 3B PLANTING Cost Cost/A Inoc.
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Chart 4B POTENTIAL DISADVANTAGES Sp
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ANNUAL RYEGRASS Lolium multiflorum
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prolonged heat, cold or drought.Tha
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crop for establishing a forage or l
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arley plants from fungus, armyworm
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can increase the fertilizer replace
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cultural and local considerations t
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(339), and by 99 percent in a Calif
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Killing & Controlling Nutrient avai
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ye/vetch/crimson clover,for example
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• In the Corn Belt and northern U
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Wheat Offers High-Value Weed Contro
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BUCKWHEAT Fagopyrum esculentum Type
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Rotations Buckwheat is used most co
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plants fractured subsoil compaction
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press some species of nematodes. Sp
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Incorporated sorghum-sudangrass res
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lodge soil particles. Sunlight is u
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Crimson-Berseem Clover Combo Works
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in water-use efficiency in the tria
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Microorganisms mineralize, or conve
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COWPEAS Vigna unguiculata Also call
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control if you go with rows, using
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drought-tolerant sorghum-sudangrass
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several winter annual legumes that
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In Ohio, crimson clover mixed with
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FIELD PEAS Pisum sativum subsp. arv
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Chill tolerant. Austrian winter pea
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In a “Flexible Green Manure” cr
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values from 13 to 34,but were gener
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year Maryland study that also inclu
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possible, but remember that hairy v
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especially in winter grains. With w
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Page 129 and 130: RED CLOVER Trifolium pratense Also
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Page 135 and 136: Subclover cultivars often are descr
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Page 139 and 140: Crop Systems Interseeded with wheat
Page 141 and 142: SWEETCLOVERS Yellow sweetclover (Me
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Page 145 and 146: Spring seeding provides yellow swee
Page 147 and 148: enhances soil fertility, texture an
Page 149 and 150: WHITE CLOVER Trifolium repens Also
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Page 153 and 154: COMPARATIVE NOTES • White clover
Page 155 and 156: Fall planting. Most growers seed at
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Page 165 and 166: Dyer, David A. 1998. Conservation L
Page 167 and 168: OTHER RESOURCES Cover Crops On The
Page 169 and 170: Cal/West Seeds Box 1428 Woodland, C
Page 171: Pick Seed Canada P.O. Box 304 1 Gre
Page 175 and 176: APPENDIX F REGIONAL EXPERTS These i
Page 177 and 178: David W. Wolfe Cornell University 1
Page 179 and 180: Bob Burdette Southern Seed Certific
Page 181 and 182: Shiou Kuo Washington State Universi
Page 183 and 184: 20 Bird, George. 1997. Personal com
Page 185 and 186: 59 Clark,A.J. 1993. Managing hairy
Page 187 and 188: 102 Fernholz, Carmen. 1997. Persona
Page 189 and 190: 141 Helm, J.L. and Dwain Meyer. 199
Page 191 and 192: 186 Koume, C.N. et al. 1988. Screen
Page 193 and 194: 226 Mohler, Charles L. 1994.A livin
Page 195 and 196: 267 Plumer, Mike. 1997. Personal co
Page 197 and 198: 309 Shrestha,A. et al. 1996.“Annu
Page 199 and 200: 352 Varco, J.J., J.O. Sanford and J
Page 201 and 202: Bulk Discounts: Except as indicated
Page 203 and 204: INDEX A Alfalfa, 10, 42, 84, 88, 94
Page 205 and 206: performance and roles, 48-49 planti
Page 207 and 208: sorghum-sudangrass hybrids, 85 subt
Page 209 and 210: subterranean clovers, 133, 137 swee
Page 211 and 212: comparative notes, 71 crop systems,
Page 213 and 214: crimson clover for, 102, 103 crop r
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