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 Objective
Compare two cover crops after potatoes and check influence on the following onion crop.
Field and Planting Notes
- County: Newaygo
- Cooperator: Mike Bouwkamp
- Nearest town: Grant
- Soil type: Muck
- Tillage: Disk plus two cultimulches
- Previous crop: Potatoes
- Cover planting date: August 7, 2000
- Fertilizer: None
- Herbicide: None
- Row width: 34-inch with two rows 8.5 inches apart
- Biomass sampling date: October 10, 2000
- Experiment design: RCB, three replications
Treatments and Results
| Treatment |
Cover crop lb/A |
Weed biomass lb/A |
Rye |
841 |
465 |
Oilseed Radish |
3532 (including root) |
85 |
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