Heather Darby Extension Professor: Agronomy Specialist
University of Vermont
278 S. Main Street
St. Albans, VT 05478
Email: heather.darby@uvm.edu
Phone: (802) 524-6501
University of Vermont Extension maintains an extensive website documenting current Vermont cover crop research, with a focus on cover crops in corn silage systems and in cereal grains, hops, and vegetables.
PDFs Under Cover – Integrating Cover Crops into Silage Corn Systems, University of Vermont Extension Topics: cover crop costs and benefits, selection, establishment timing and methods, and termination in silage corn systems Cover crops: rye, triticale, oats, wheat, barley, annual ryegrass, red clover, white clover, alsike clover, hairy vetch, radish, mustard, mixes
2015 Cover Crop Mix in Corn Silage Trial, University of Vermont Extension Topics: cultivar/species trials, cover crop mixes, summer cover crops interseeded into corn of varying days to maturity Cover crops: rye, ryegrass, oats, wheat, triticale, sudangrass, millet, crimson clover, Ladino clover, yellow sweet clover, medium red clover, hairy vetch, sunn hemp, radish, rapeseed, sunflower, flax, chicory, buckwheat, mixes
2016 Cover Crop Mix in Corn Silage Trial, University of Vermont Extension Topics: cultivar/species trials, cover crop mixes, summer cover crops interseeded into corn of varying days to maturity Cover crops: rye, ryegrass, oats, triticale, clover, winter peas, radish, rapeseed, turnip, mixes
Links to external websites Cover Crops and Green Manures, University of Vermont Extension Topics: cover crops in vegetable rotations, cover crop benefits and strategies, interseeding Cover crops: rye, oats, ryegrass, sudangrass, sorghum-sudangrass, Japanese millet, hairy vetch, red clover, white clover, sweetclover, field pea, cowpea, soybeans, alfalfa, radish, buckwheat, mixes
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Heather Darby
Extension Professor: Agronomy Specialist
University of Vermont
278 S. Main Street
St. Albans, VT 05478
Email: heather.darby@uvm.edu
Phone: (802) 524-6501
University of Vermont Extension maintains an extensive website documenting current Vermont cover crop research, with a focus on cover crops in corn silage systems and in cereal grains, hops, and vegetables.
PDFs
Under Cover – Integrating Cover Crops into Silage Corn Systems, University of Vermont Extension
Topics: cover crop costs and benefits, selection, establishment timing and methods, and termination in silage corn systems
Cover crops: rye, triticale, oats, wheat, barley, annual ryegrass, red clover, white clover, alsike clover, hairy vetch, radish, mustard, mixes
2014 No Till and Cover Crop Symposium Proceedings, University of Vermont Extension
Topics: reduced tillage, interseeding, planting methods, cover crops as forage crops, mixes
2015 No Till and Cover Crop Symposium Proceedings, University of Vermont Extension
Topics: reduced tillage, planting green, interseeding, cultivar/species trials
Cover Cropping Costs and Benefits, University of Vermont Extension
Topics: cover crop costs and benefits, balance sheets
Cover crops: rye, ryegrass, triticale, mixes
Reduced Tillage and Cover Crops – Five Factors for Success, University of Vermont Extension
Topics: cover crops in reduced-tillage systems, equipment
2010 Cover Crop Planting Date x Seeding Rate Trial, University of Vermont Extension
Topics: planting dates and seeding rates
Cover crops: rye
2011 Cover Crop Planting Date x Seeding Rate Trial, University of Vermont Extension
Topics: planting dates and seeding rates
Cover crops: rye
2011 Cover Crop Planting Date Trial, University of Vermont Extension
Topics: planting dates
Cover crops: rye
2012 Cover Crop Planting Date x Seeding Rate Trial, University of Vermont Extension
Topics: planting dates and seeding rates
Cover crops: rye
2013 Cover Crop Planting Date x Seeding Rate Trial, University of Vermont Extension
Topics: planting dates and seeding rates
Cover crops: rye
2014 Late Summer Cover Crop Trial, University of Vermont Extension
Topics: cultivar/species trial, planting dates
Cover crops: annual ryegrass, oats, winter peas
2014 Early Fall Cover Crop Trial, University of Vermont Extension
Topics: cultivar/species trial, planting dates
Cover crops: annual ryegrass, triticale, oats, winter peas, vetch, radish, canola, mixes
Tips for Interseeding Cover Crops, University of Vermont Extension
Topics: interseeding equipment
2010 Cover Crop Termination Trial, University of Vermont Extension
Topics: termination methods, roller-crimping, reduced tillage
Cover crops: rye
2012 Cover Crop Termination and Reduced Tillage Trial, University of Vermont Extension
Topics: termination methods, roller-crimping, reduced tillage
Cover crops: rye
2014 Summer Cover Crop Mix, University of Vermont Extension
Topics: cultivar/species trials, summer cover crops
Cover crops: rye, ryegrass, oats, wheat, triticale, crimson clover, Ladino clover, hairy vetch, radish, rapeseed, mixes
2015 Cover Crop Mix in Corn Silage Trial, University of Vermont Extension
Topics: cultivar/species trials, cover crop mixes, summer cover crops interseeded into corn of varying days to maturity
Cover crops: rye, ryegrass, oats, wheat, triticale, sudangrass, millet, crimson clover, Ladino clover, yellow sweet clover, medium red clover, hairy vetch, sunn hemp, radish, rapeseed, sunflower, flax, chicory, buckwheat, mixes
2016 Cover Crop Mix in Corn Silage Trial, University of Vermont Extension
Topics: cultivar/species trials, cover crop mixes, summer cover crops interseeded into corn of varying days to maturity
Cover crops: rye, ryegrass, oats, triticale, clover, winter peas, radish, rapeseed, turnip, mixes
Links to external websites
Cover Crops and Green Manures, University of Vermont Extension
Topics: cover crops in vegetable rotations, cover crop benefits and strategies, interseeding
Cover crops: rye, oats, ryegrass, sudangrass, sorghum-sudangrass, Japanese millet, hairy vetch, red clover, white clover, sweetclover, field pea, cowpea, soybeans, alfalfa, radish, buckwheat, mixes