Nutrient Cycling and Agroecosystems Laboratory @ University of Wisconsin-Madison. Nitrogen, cover crops, and water quality. I keep busy.

Madison, WI
Joined July 2009
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⁦@ajanegevens⁩ crushing it at the Hancock Potato Field Day #potato
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Red clover (interseeded/drilled into corn at V4 last year) starting to put on biomass after a cold wet spring. Patchy, will wait at least another ten days to terminate to get a meaningful #nitrogen credit #covercrops
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Thomas Jefferson was a cover cropper. #covercrops 2018 Wisconsin Agribusiness Classic
Mobile cover crop app coming soon
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Agronomic & environmental concerns drive split N application use #UWDFConference
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Great panel on farmer experiences with #covercrops at Nat.Conf. on Covers and Soil Health @soil_institute #CoverCrops17
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Very fast decomposition of spring barley on irrigated sands. A lot of spring barley growth in fall. #covercrops
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Corn planted after winter triticale (left) compared to earlier planting. Tradeoff may be worth it depending on farm.
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Nodules starting to develop on snap beans. Although not all snap bean varieties nodulate. #snapbeans #greenbeans
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The Value of Cover Crops in Dairy Production Systems #covercrops #nitrogen youtu.be/3Vdc_Zr1Pu8 via @YouTube
#covercrop comparison: annual ryegrass on left (mostly brown, some green if you look for it), winter rye on right (green & still kickin').
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Spring barley #covercrop. Good (great?) soil coverage with dead biomass. Will be evaluating if there is any #nitrogen tie-up in corn.
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Nice growth and soil coverage of rye #covercrop in Columbia County, WI.
How did interseeding at V5 work in 2016? youtu.be/mApEk3EvhYg via @YouTube #covercrop
Spring barley #covercrop planted early October survived the winter (NE WI). Manure injection paths on the diagonal. – at Wisconsin, USA
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