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F
Faba beans. See Bell beans
Fagopyrum esculentum.
See Buckwheat
Fallow
in dryland production, 40–42
vs. grain legumes, 109
vs. medics, 120
selecting cover crops for,
12–13
sweetclover rotations, 142,
144, 145
Farmer accounts
Alger–perennial medic for
soil quality, fertility, 121
Anderson–woollypod vetch
reseeding, 153; as frost
protectant and recognizing
seedlings, 152
Bartolucci–establishing
woollypod vetch, 153
Bennett–rye for weed management
in soybeans, 67
Burkett–winter peas for disease
suppression, 108
Carter–wheat production, 74
de Wilde–killing rye, 69; rye
for mulch, 70
Erisman–timing rye kill, 69
French–cowpeas in rotation,
98
French–field peas, 110
Granzow–sweetclovers for
grazing and green manure,
142
Groff–incorporating rye seed
68; killing rye, 69
Guenther–crimson-berseem
clover with corn, 89
Kirschenmann–sweetclover
with nurse crops, 145
LaRocca–barley in vineyard
mix
Matthews–white clover in
contour strips, 149
Mazour–managing sweetclover
escapes, 146
Moyer–no-till rye into
standing vetch
Nordell–early plowing to
avoid slugs, 144; sweetclover-clover
mixes, 146;
weed management in vegetables,
38–39
Podoll–sweetclover weevil
cycle, 144
Farming organizations, 170–172
Fava beans. See Bell beans
Feed supplements, 65
Fertilizer
for fallow systems, 109
red clover systems, 128, 130,
131
reducing, 9–10, 93
for subterranean clover, 136
Fescue, 81, 114, 115
Field peas, 105–111
advantages and disadvantages,
52–53, 105–107
cropping systems, 34, 41
cultural traits, 50
for fertilizer reduction, 10
for grazing and nitrogen, 110
management, 107–111
performance and roles,
48–49
planting and seed, 51, 106-
108, 111
Flail choppers for sorghumsudangrass
hybrids, 82, 83
Flail mowers. See
Mowers/mowing
Flax, 42
Forage
berseem clover, 88, 90, 91
cowpeas, 96
field peas, 106, 110
hairy vetch, 119
medics, 121, 126
oats, 64–65
red clover, 131
rye,71
sorghum-sudangrass hybrids,
81
subterranean clovers, 136
sweetclovers, 142, 146
white clover, 148
woollypod vetch, 155
Foxtail millet, 160
Freedom to Farm Act, 98
Frost damage, 152
Frostseeding, 129, 143, 148–149
Fruits. See also Orchards;
Vineyards
rye for,66
subterranean clovers, 134
G
German millet. See Foxtail
millet
Grain rye. See Rye
Grains. See Small grains; specific
crops
Grasses
carbon to nitrogen ratio,23,54
for fertilizer reduction, 10
for moisture conservation, 11
for nematode management,
32
nitrate conservation, 18–19
in soil health, 17, 18, 24
subterranean clover
mixtures, 134
Grass waterways, 57
Grazing
annual ryegrass, 56, 57
berseem clover, 88, 90
in corn-soybean system, 41
cowpeas, 96
crimson clover, 104
in dryland cereal-legume
systems, 42
field peas, 106, 110, 111
grass cover crops, 54
hairy vetch, 119
livestock poisoning, 81, 85,
139–140, 142
lupins, 161
medics, 121
oats, 64–65
performance and roles of
species, 44, 48
rye,71
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