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Tag: long-term research

Early Lessons from Ridgetown’s Long-term Cover Crop Trial for Field Crops

Posted on December 28, 2020 (July 18, 2022) by Alexandra Collingwood

Dr. Dave Hooker and his colleagues have been curious about the value of integrating cover crops into a farming operation in the long term. These questions have remained unanswered by numerous short-term trials they had been conducting, which led them to establish a new trial. As it can take time for a cropping system to […]

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The Impact of Cover Crops in a Processing Vegetable-Grain Cropping System

Posted on December 21, 2020 (December 22, 2021) by Alexandra Collingwood

There are a variety of agricultural research trials in the province, but one that stands out from the rest is the long-term cover crop trial set up by Dr. Laura Van Eerd in Ridgetown, Ontario. This trial was established in 2007 and has had consistent cover crop treatments within a processing vegetable-grain crop rotation on […]

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