110 Management and Impact of Cover Crops: I

Oral Session
S06 Soil & Water Management & Conservation
This poster session will focus on the management and impact of cover crops in agricultural production systems. Any management issues of cover crops may be presented including establishment, termination, planting date, planting methods, cover crop growth, and nutrient uptake. Impact or effect of cover crops on any aspect of the environment, soil, nutrients, carbon, or cropping systems may also be presented.
Cosponsor(s):

C06 Forage and Grazinglands

Monday, November 2, 2009: 12:55 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center, Room 412, Fourth Floor

Presiding:
Neal Eash
Organizer:
Thomas Kaspar
12:55 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:00 PM
Cover Crops: Nitrogen, Weeds, Insects, Disease, Soil Quality, and Economics.
Laura Van Eerd, Univ. of Guelph Ridgetown Campus; Kelsey A. O'Reilly, Univ. of Guelph Ridgetown Campus; Darren E. Robinson, Univ. of Guelph Ridgetown Campus; Richard J. Vyn, Univ. of Guelph Ridgetown Campus; E. Anne Verhallen, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs; Elaine C. Roddy, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
1:15 PM
Grazing Winter Cover Crops in a Cotton-Cover Crop Conservation Tillage System.
Harry Schomberg, USDA-ARS; Dwight S. Fisher, USDA-ARS; Randy Raper, USDA-ARS; Dinku M. Endale, USDA-ARS; Michael Jenkins, USDA-ARS; D. Reeves, USDA-ARS
1:30 PM
Cover Crop Termination with A Front-Mounted Roller in No-till Organic Corn Production.
Constance Hugo, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville; Neal Eash, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville; Forbes Walker, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville; Brandon Smith, USDA-NRCS; Annette Wszelaki, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville; Ningfang Yang, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
1:45 PM
Nonlinear Hierarchical Models for Predicting Red Clover Biomass Using NDVI and Factors Affecting Biomass Performance.
Juan Munoz-Robayo, Michigan State Univ.; Alexandra Kravchenko, Michigan State Univ.; Andrew Finley, Michigan State Univ.; Sieglinde Snapp, Michigan State Univ.; Ronald Gehl, North Carolina State Univ.
2:00 PM
Break
2:15 PM
Estimating Winter Cover Crop Nitrogen Uptake with Satellite Imagery: Four Years of Results From the Choptank River.
W. Dean Hively, USDA-ARS; Megan Lang, USDA-ARS; Gregory McCarty, USDA-ARS; Ali Sadeghi, USDA-ARS; Jason Keppler, Maryland Dep. of Agriculture
2:30 PM
Short-Term Impact of Winter Cover Crop Biomass Removal On Soil Physical Properties.
Francisco Arriaga, USDA-ARS; Fernando Ducamp, Auburn Univ.; Kipling Balkcom, USDA-ARS; Charles Mitchell, Auburn Univ.
2:45 PM
Nitrogen Applications to Increase Cover Crop Biomass and Benefits in the Southeast.
Kipling Balkcom, USDA-ARS; Francisco J. Arriaga, USDA-ARS; Charles Mitchell, Auburn Univ.; Dennis Delaney, Auburn Univ.; Jason Bergtold, Kansas State Univ.
3:00 PM
Can Leguminous Cover Crops Replace Fertilizer Nitrogen in Mississippi Delta Cotton Production?.
Robert Zablotowicz, USDA-ARS, SWSRU; Krishna Reddy, USDA-ARS, SWSRU; Craig Abel, USDA-ARS; L. Krutz, USDA-ARS, SWSRU; Leslie Price, USDA-ARS; R. Earl Gordon, USDA-ARS, SWSRU
3:15 PM
Nitrous Oxide Emissions From An Organic Potato Rotation in Eastern Canada as Influenced by Legume Green Manure and Organic Amendment.
Mehdi Sharifi, Nova Scotia Agricultural College; Derek Lynch, Nova Scotia Agricultural College; Andrew Hammermeister, Nova Scotia Agricultural College; David Burton, Nova Scotia Agricultural College
3:30 PM
Adjourn