219 Cover Crop Management: I

Oral Session
ASA Section: Land Management & Conservation
This is a general session on cover crop management and benefits associated with cover crops that will have interest across the tri-societies.  Topics will cover a wide range of disciplines with regards to cover crops and subsequent cash crop management.   Research relevant to agronomic production, environmental benefits, nutrient sequestration and release, weed control, and soil and water conservation that is associated with cover crops are encouraged to participate.

Approved for 3.0 CM CEUs.

Cosponsor(s):

Cover Crop Management Community

Nutrients and Environmental Quality Community
Soil-Plant-Water Relations Community

Tuesday, November 17, 2015: 9:55 AM-2:30 PM
Minneapolis Convention Center, M100 B

Organizer:
Kipling S. Balkcom
Moderator:
Paul B. DeLaune
9:55 AM
Introductory Remarks
10:30 AM
Integrating Summer Cover Crops into Vegetable Production in Southern New England.
Rebecca N. Brown, University of Rhode Island; Gabrielle Torphy, University of Rhode Island
11:00 AM
Cover Crop Mixture Diversity and Biomass Production.
Angela Florence, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; John L. Lindquist, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
11:15 AM
Cover Crop Mixture Diversity and Weed Suppression.
Angela Florence, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; John L. Lindquist, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
11:30 AM
Lunch Break
1:00 PM
1:15 PM
Cover Crops for Silage in Soybean Systems.
Timothy Sklenar, Iowa State University; Mary H. Wiedenhoeft, Iowa State University; Thomas C. Kaspar, USDA-ARS National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment; Andrew W. Lenssen, Iowa State University
1:30 PM
1:30 PM
Cover Crop Establishment Following Commonly Applied Corn and Soybean Herbicides in the Upper Midwest.
Daniel H Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Travis R Legleiter, Purdue University; Elizabeth J Bosak, University of Wisconsin-Madison; William G Johnson, Purdue University; Vince M Davis, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1:45 PM
Farmer Perspectives on Cover Crop Breeding.
Sandra Wayman, Cornell University-Crop & Soil Sciences; Lisa Kissing Kucek, Cornell University; Steven B Mirsky, USDA-ARS; Matthew Ryan, Cornell University
2:00 PM
What Have We Learned from Early Cover Crop Adopters? Strategies for Expanding Cover Crop Use from Innovative Iowa Farmers.
Andrea Diane Basche, Union of Concerned Scientists; Gabrielle Roesch-McNally, Iowa State University; John Tyndall, Iowa State University; J. Arbuckle, Iowa State University; Fernando Miguez, Iowa State University; Troy Bowman, Iowa State University; Rebecca Clay, Iowa State University
2:15 PM
Adjourn