Learn from the experience of farmers and a farm advisor about the sequencing and rotations of different crops, including how different cover crops can have different effects on crops that follow. Optimizing cropping can improve yields. Discover how diverse rooting depths will scavenge different nutrients; how various crops and cover crops can decrease the loss of nitrogen; and how some diseases can be reduced, prevented, or accelerated by a crop. Hear about crop-rotation benefits, including trading ground with neighbors and their crops.
Track and Session Info
Track:
Beginning Farmers & Ranchers
Soil, Production, Crops, Regulations
Session:
G | 8:30 am
Date and Location
Date:
Tue, Oct 8, 2019
Day:
Saturday
Presenter(s):
Leonard Diggs
Title:
Leonard Diggs
Presenter Affiliation:
Pie Ranch
Dick Peixoto
Title:
Dick Peixoto
Presenter Affiliation:
Lakeside Organic Gardens
Richard Smith
Title:
Richard Smith
Presenter Affiliation:
Vegetable Crops Farm Advisor, UC Cooperative Extension
