Category: Crop Production
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Observations on Interseeding Cover Crops
Interseeding, or sowing cover crop into a standing cash crop, is a way get a jump on the traditional winter cover crop season. This can lead to an increase in cover crop biomass production, and presumably, better erosion control and soil organic matter enhancement. Earlier establishment also increases your choices of cover crops compared to…
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Transplanting Sweet Corn
Sweet corn is an important crop for many diversified vegetable farms. Not only does farm-fresh corn attract consumers, but corn is useful as a rotation crop, too, because it hosts few insects and diseases that affect other vegetables. Weeds, well that’s another matter. Sweet corn fields can get quite weedy, especially if timely cultivation is…
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Growing Good Transplants
Growing high quality transplants helps get vegetable crops off to a strong start in the field, and it’s essential to customer satisfaction if you are selling transplants. At the recent New England Vegetable and Fruit conference I picked up many of the following tips on transplant production from presentations by Jan van der Heide of…
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Farmers and their Diversified Horticultural Marketing Strategies | 1999
This 49-minute educational video features 14 farmers from 8 farms in the Northeast describing their marketing practices for fresh produce. The farmers explain their approaches to the use of: roadside stand, farmers’ market, large-scale Community Supported Agriculture, multiple markets, internet sales, pick-your-own, restaurant sales, and a wholesale marketing cooperative.
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Vegetable Farmers and their Weed Control Machines | 1995
This 75-minute educational video features 9 New England vegetable farmers demonstrating and describing cultivation and flame weeding tools, including: basket, finger, and tine weeders, rotary hoe, rolling cultivator, Bezzerides implements, backpack and tractor-mounted flamers.
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Farmers and their Ecological Sweet Corn Production | 2001
This 50-minute educational video features 12 farmers from 5 states in the Northeast describing techniques they use to grow sweet corn while optimizing use of natural resources and minimizing inputs. These include hairy vetch as a cover crop, soil tests, soil heat monitoring, floating row covers, pest scouting and monitoring, mechanical weed control, banded herbicide…
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Farmers and Their Innovative Cover Cropping Techniques | 2005
This 70-minute educational video features 10 vegetable farmers in 5 Northeastern states demonstrating and describing a variety of cover cropping techniques including rye, wheat, oats and/or hairy vetch as winter covers; winter rye for strawberry mulch; field peas as a spring cover; hairy vetch and rye strips grown between crops; soil spader for incorporating cover…
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Vegetable Farmers and their Sustainable Tillage Practices | 2007
This 45-minute video was produced as a tool to educate vegetable farmers about a range of reduced tillage practices that promote soil health. The practices were demonstrated and explained by experienced farmers and researchers on nine farms in five northeastern states. Topics covered included: introduction to sustainable tillage, using a soil spader, a no-till mulch…
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Vermont Farms Growing Vegetable and/or Berries
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