Broccoli Production in Forage Soybean and Foxtail Millet Cover Crop Mulches

Autor:	John R. Teasdale, T. E. Devine, Ronald D. Morse, Aref A. Abdul-Baki
Rok vydání:	1997
Předmět:	No-till farming Setaria Horticulture Agronomy Brassica Forage Biology Cropping system Weed biology.organism_classification Cover crop Mulch
Zdroj:	HortScience. 32:836-839
ISSN:	2327-9834 0018-5345
DOI:	10.21273/hortsci.32.5.836
Popis:	`Emperor' broccoli (Brassica oleraceae L. Botrytis Group) was grown in Fall 1995 at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC), Md., and at the Kentland Agricultural Research Farm (KARF), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg. The objectives were to determine the effects of cover crop mulches in no-tillage production systems on marketable broccoli yield and weed suppression. The mulch treatments included cover crops of forage soybean (Glycine max L.), foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.P. Beauv), and a combination of soybean and millet. Broccoli marketable yield from all three mulch treatments was equal to that from a conventional clean cultivation system, except for the millet treatment at BARC, which produced a lower yield. All treatments maintained weeds below levels that reduced yield. Cover crop biomass ranged from 4.6 to 9.6 t·ha-1 and N content from 10 g·kg-1 for millet to 28 g·kg-1 for soybean.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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