B843: The Ecology, Economics, and Management of Potato Cropping Systems: A Report of the First Four Years of the Maine Potato Ecosystem Project

Authors

A. Randall Alford
Francis A. DrummondFollow
Eric R. Gallandt
Eleanor Groden
David A. Lambert
Matt Liebman
Michele C. Marra
Jeffrey C. McBurnie
Gregory A. Porter
Bacilio Salas

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Description

The bulletin reports on the first four years of the Maine Potato Ecosystem Project, a long-term, multidisciplinary study of alternative crop management strategies. The study site is a 15-acre tract on the northern boundary of the University of Maine's Aroostook Farm in Presque Isle, Maine, divided into 96 main plots that are grouped into four blocks. Each block is an area where soil survey data show similar soil characteristics. Thus, given the same production inputs, the crop output is expected to be the same on each plot within a block. Within each block there are 24 plots to which the different treatments have been randomly assigned. A treatment is a particular combination of the following factors: (1) pest management—conventiorial, reduced input, or biological; (2) potato variety—Atlantic or Superior; and (3) soil management—amended or unamended.

Document Type

Report

ISSN

1070--1494

Rights and Access Note

Rights assessment remains the responsibility of the researcher. No known restrictions on publication

Volume

843

Publication Date

4-1996

Publisher

Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station

City

Orono

Keywords

potatoes, Maine

Disciplines

Agricultural Economics | Agronomy and Crop Sciences | Entomology | Plant Pathology

Recommended Citation

Alford, A.R., F.A. Drummond, E.R. Gallandt, E. Groden, D.A. Lambert, M. Liebman, M.C. Marra, J.C. McBurnie, G.A. Porter, B. Salas. 1996. The ecology, economics, and management of potato cropping systems: A report of the first four years of the Maine Potato Ecosystem Project. Maine Agricultural & Forest Experiment Station Bulletin 843.