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  • From: Bill Shoemaker <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] no-till and farming with horses
  • Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 09:23:56 -0500 (CDT)

You need equipment that is really beefed up to handle the residue. Steve
Groff in Pennsylvania is who you're referring to I believe. We've been using
tilled strips in rye for cover cropped pumpkins. Then you can run a regular
transplanter or seeder down the rows, use plastic mulch, etc. It really makes
it easier but you still gain a lot from the rye mulch mat, including weed
control, moisture retention, clean pumpkins and reduced fruit rot potential.
Another big benefit is that PYO customers in the Fall can walk out onto the
mulch to pick up fruit, even after a rain. We have a large grower in N Ill
who has adopted the system and seems pretty happy with it.

Bill

---- Original message ----
>Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 08:04:45 -0400
>From: Richard Stewart <rstewart AT zoomtown.com>
>Subject: Re: [Market-farming] no-till and farming with horses
>To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
>
> Rodale is doing some interesting stuff.
> In order to plant INTO the rolled cover crop you
> need to use a no-till planter. Can you economically
> pull a no-till (even a small two or four row) with
> draft? (No experience here)
> As they are rolling grasses in all their test
> projects you could not do corn or grass small grain.
> You could do that in a vetch but I have yet to see
> a good vetch kill using the roller. I've been
> following this and have not seen the crop results
> either. Someone out east PA or NY I think was using
> a custom water wheel set up to plant tomatoes in
> such a roll-killed cover crop but I have not seen
> the end results.
> Richard Stewart
> Carriage House Farm
> North Bend, Ohio
> An Ohio Century Farm Est. 1855
> (513) 967-1106
> http://www.carriagehousefarmllc.com
> rstewart AT zoomtown.com
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