Keywords
nurse cropping, potato systems
Disciplines
Agricultural Economics | Agricultural Education | Agricultural Science | Agriculture | Agronomy and Crop Sciences
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Abstract/Summary
In the summer of 2016, a study was conducted at the Rogers Farm in Stillwater, Maine to study the effect of short-term nurse crops on potato yield and quality. The study was designed as a randomized complete block design with six replications. The study compared two sowing rates (winter rye at 100 vs. 200 lbs/ac) to 20 lbs of annual ryegrass or a check plot (no nurse crop). In addition, each of the winter rye treatments was either killed with an herbicide prior to one-pass hilling or just hilled. To address the question of how long to grow a NC, WR treatments were allowed to grow either three weeks or four weeks prior to being incorporated.
Publication Date
2-15-2017
Publisher
University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Publisher Location
Orono, ME
Publication Title
Cooperative Extension - Agriculture
Files
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Recommended Citation
Jemison, John M. Jr., "Nurse Cropping in Potato Systems" (2017). Cooperative Extension - Agriculture. 6.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/extension_ag/6
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