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Organic Field Crop Research - Cropping Practices
General Cropping Practices Research
- NEW!! The sustainability of organic grain production on the Canadian Prairies – A review
- NEW!! Organic and conventional field crop soil and land management practices in Canada
- European Union Integrated Project "Quality
Low Input Food"
- Effects of production methods (PDF, 377 kb) 2009
- Crop production systems (PDF, 313 kb) 2009
- Low input and organic cropping systems for semi-arid regions
- Organic and Conventional Production Systems in the Wisconsin
- Prediction of Grain Yield of Spring Barley Varieties
- USDA-ARS farming systems project: evaluating the sustainability of organic and conventional cropping systems in the mid-Atlantic
- Yield variation in organic winter wheat in the Southeast of France
Crop Rotation
- NEW!! Growth and N Supply from Legume Cover Crops in Organic Rye and Wheat Production
- Crop Rotation and Wheat Nutrient Content: Glenlea
- The Glenlea Long-term Rotation: 10 years of organic vs. conventional crop production
- Long-term Organic Crop Rotation Experiments for Cereal Production
Intercropping
- NEW!! Biological nitrogen fixation in mixed legume-cereal cropping systems
- NEW!! Biological nitrogen fixation in mixed legume/grass pastures
- NEW!! Dinitrogen fixation and transfer in legume-crested wheatgrass mixtures on semiarid rangelands
- NEW!! Managing white clover living mulch for sweet corn production with partial rototilling
- NEW!! Preliminary trials using a white clover understorey to supply the nitrogen requirements of a cereal
- NEW!! The efficiency of a durum wheat-winter pea intercrop to improve yield and wheat grain protein concentration depends on N availability during early growth
- NEW!! Dynamic analysis of competition and complementarity for light and N use to understand the yield and the protein content of a durum wheat–winter pea intercrop
- NEW!! Interseeding forage brassicas into sweet corn: forage productivity and effect on sweet corn yield
- Cultivar Mixtures, Cover Crops, and Intercropping with Organic Spring Wheat (PDF, 177 kb)
- Effect of Intercropping and Cultivar Mixtures on Organic Wheat
- Performance and Feed Quality of Oat, Barley and Pea Varieties when Grown Organically in Monocrop or in Mixtures
Mulching
Reduced Tillage
- NEW!! Continuous No-Till Organic Grain Production: Possible?
- NEW!! Adapting Mechanical Weed Control to Conventional Cropping Systems: What are the Possibilities?
- NEW!! Nitrogen Dynamics and Wheat Yield in a No-Till Organic Green Manure System Using the Roller Crimper
- NEW!! Use of a mechanical roller crimper as an alternative kill method for cover crop
- NEW!! New roller crimper concepts for mechanical termination of cover crops in conservation agriculture
- NEW!! Using high-residue cover crop mulch for weed management in organic no-till potato production systems
- NEW!! New Tools for Organic No-Till (Rodale Institute)
- NEW!! Potential long-term benefits of no-tillage and organic cropping systems for grain production and soil improvement
- Effects of reduced tillage, fertilisation and biodynamic preparations on crop yield, weed infestation and the occurrence of Toxigenic fusaria
- New reasons to perfect organic no-till
- Potential Long-Term Benefits of No-Tillage and Organic Cropping Systems for Grain Production and Soil Improvement
- Transition from Intensive Tillage to No-Tillage and Organic Diversified Annual Cropping Systems