Completed Competitive Grant

Demonstration of an annual forage crop integrated with crop and livestock enterprises

Project ID: 1995-49

Abstract

Using a more diverse cropping system, such as strip intercropping, to produce forages for feeding livestock can create a more sustainable, environmentally friendly farming system. Strip intercropping of corn, soybeans, and oats underseeded with berseem clover was used to demonstrate agronomic and environmental benefits of a more varied cropping system. This system produces oat/ berseem clover soilage (green-chop) that can be utilized to feed beef cattle.

Lead investigator: Richard M. Cruse, ISU Agronomy, et al

Year of grant completion: 1998

This competitive grant project was part of the Leopold Center's Initiative.

Topics: Cover crops, double crops, strip cropping, Animal management and forage

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