{"id":38,"date":"2018-02-19T16:45:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T21:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/?p=38"},"modified":"2018-02-19T16:45:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T21:45:21","slug":"cover-crop-study-in-turner-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/2018\/02\/cover-crop-study-in-turner-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Crop Study in Turner County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you know it or not,\u00a0Turner County\u00a0farmers have a good\u00a0reputation for their adoption of conservation tillage\u00a0practices.\u00a0Much of this is due to efforts in the past from dedicated farmers and\u00a0extension agents;\u00a0Scott Utley and Ronnie Barentine to be specific. Several years and two county agents later, I feel that we need to revisit cover crops\u00a0in our research and extension efforts for the following reasons:\u00a0A)\u00a0the new county agent needs some hands-on experience\u00a0B) We have\u00a0younger growers that weren&#8217;t around when many of these efforts were taking place C) Some\u00a0growers realize the benefits\u00a0of a good cover crop but have\u00a0gotten slack over the years and just need a good refresher.\u00a0This trial was installed on a field that will be strip-tilled into melons later this year.<\/p>\n<p>We planted plots of the following mixes: rye, rye+vetch, and rye+tillage radish. Each plot was replicated 3 times. We are planning on\u00a0using tillage to terminate the cover in 3 more plots this week to give us a control.<\/p>\n<p>The photo on the left is of the rye+vetch mix. This mix looks very good. It will provide a dense matt for weed suppression along with some residual nitrogen from vetch since it is a legume.<\/p>\n<p>The photo on the right is of the rye+tillage radish mix. Our tillage radishes did not fair very well in the cold temperatures we had this winter. They received a lot of cold injury. We still have 3-4 weeks of growth before we terminate this cover with an herbicide. The idea of the tillage radish is that the long tap root may penetrate\u00a0a hard pan if present.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more later on&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_2299-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_2299-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_2299-104x138.jpg 104w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_2299.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_2297-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_2297-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_2297-104x138.jpg 104w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_2297.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you know it or not,\u00a0Turner County\u00a0farmers have a good\u00a0reputation for their adoption of conservation tillage\u00a0practices.\u00a0Much of this is due to efforts in the past from dedicated farmers and\u00a0extension agents;\u00a0Scott Utley and Ronnie Barentine to be specific. Several years and two county agents later, I feel that we need to revisit cover crops\u00a0in our research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":231,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}