Trial Report Summary

Wheat-Cover Crop

Crop Type(s):
Wheat
Centre(s):
PCDF
Year(s):
2019
Collaborators(s):

James Frey, Manitoba Agriculture
Jessica Frey, Parkland Crop Diversification Foundation

Objective(s):

To demonstrate the use of cover cropping strategies

Project Findings:

Poor emergence resulted in high weed pressure in the trial. PCDF decided to continue the trial for
observational purposes only. The wheat was harvested by a small plot combine, although due to poor establishment, the wheat yield was not calculated.

Background:

Cover cropping is of growing interest to many Manitoba farmers. Cover crops can be planted alone or with a cash crop, and can perform a number of significant functions for the soil, including controlling soil erosion after harvest of the cash crop, sequestering and increasing soil nutrients, and improving water infiltration. Seeding a cover crop with a cash crop can reduce fieldwork in the following year, allowing the cover crop to be used as a source of fertility (i.e. green manure), forage crop or cash crop.

PDF:

Entire findings are available by downloading the report PDF.

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