Session: Management and Impact of Cover Crops: I

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 L. 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; Anne Verhallen, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs; Elaine C. Roddy, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs

Audio File Recorded presentation

1:15 PM

Grazing Winter Cover Crops in a Cotton-Cover Crop Conservation Tillage System.
Harry H. Schomberg, USDA-ARS; Dwight S. Fisher, USDA-ARS; Randy L. Raper, USDA-ARS; Dinku M. Endale, USDA-ARS; Michael B. Jenkins, USDA-ARS; D. Wayne Reeves, USDA-ARS

Audio File Recorded presentation

1:30 PM

Cover Crop Termination with A Front-Mounted Roller in No-till Organic Corn Production.
Constance Marie 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

Audio File Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

Nonlinear Hierarchical Models for Predicting Red Clover Biomass Using NDVI and Factors Affecting Biomass Performance.
Juan D. Munoz, Michigan State Univ.; Alexandra Kravchenko, Michigan State Univ.; Andrew Finley, Michigan State Univ.; Sieglinde Snapp, Michigan State Univ.; R.J. Gehl, North Carolina State Univ.

Audio File Recorded presentation

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

Audio File Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

Short-Term Impact of Winter Cover Crop Biomass Removal On Soil Physical Properties.
Francisco J. Arriaga, USDA-ARS; Fernando Ducamp, Auburn Univ.; Kipling S. Balkcom, USDA-ARS; Charles C. Mitchell, Auburn Univ.

Audio File Recorded presentation

2:45 PM

Nitrogen Applications to Increase Cover Crop Biomass and Benefits in the Southeast.
Kipling S. Balkcom, USDA-ARS; Francisco J. Arriaga, USDA-ARS; Charles C. Mitchell, Auburn Univ.; Dennis P. Delaney, Auburn Univ.; Jason S. Bergtold, Kansas State Univ.

Audio File Recorded presentation

3:00 PM

Can Leguminous Cover Crops Replace Fertilizer Nitrogen in Mississippi Delta Cotton Production?.
Robert M. Zablotowicz, USDA-ARS, SWSRU; Krishna N. Reddy, USDA-ARS, SWSRU; Craig Abel, USDA-ARS; L. Jason 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

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