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| Hello folks,
Thought some of you might like to see some pics of the organic tillage system experiment that we finished planting today.
Here is a link to an album of about 60 photos showing the cover crops we planted last fall and many views along the way up to today when we no-till drilled beans into the no-till system.
http://picasaweb.google.com/joelandlisa/Tillagesystemexperiment#
I have posted about this experiment before before but very briefly the tillage systems are:
conventional till - oats were drilled last fall, multiple tillage operations before planting soybeans on 30" rows, will be cultivated as needed
minimum till - oats were drilled and radishes were planted on 30" rows last fall, shallow tillage a few hours before soybeans were planted on the same 30" rows as the radishes, will be cultivated as needed
no-till = drilled to rye and vetch last fall (very poor establishment/survival of vetch), rye rolled about 10 days ago with a cultimulcher, soybeans drilled into rye this afternoon, no cultivation
Tillage systems are replicated 4 times. Plots are 10' wide by ~ 500'.
2 photos (that are also in the picasa album) should be attached.
Joel
WIU Agriculture
 (Abouttostart.JPG)
 (Afterround1.JPG)
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 Abouttostart.JPG (52KB - 193 downloads)
Afterround1.JPG (47KB - 181 downloads)
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organic tillage system experiment
