Reduced Tillage Field Day – Summer 2017
Tools and Tactics for Organic Vegetables at Any Scale
August 14th, 2017, 4:00-7:00 pm
Location: Freeville Organic Research Farm at the Cornell HC Thompson Vegetable Research Farm, 133 Fall Creek Road, Freeville NY
The Cornell Reduced Tillage Team held a field tour and discussion of practices to build soils and manage weeds in organic vegetables. Can tarps help replace tillage? How can we integrate cover crops with reduced tillage? What tools can be used for more strategic tillage and cultivation? Over 4o farmers and educators joined to talk about the latest research and hear farm experience. Topics included:
- Tarping in direct seeded crops, cover crop mulching for summer transplants, and practices for permanent beds
- Demos of strip till and cultivation tools in high residue
- In-row cultivation tools with Integrated Weed Management Specialist Bryan Brown (NYS IPM)
Email Ryan Maher at rmm325@cornell.edu with questions and visit smallfarms.cornell.edu/projects/reduced-tillage/ for more on the project.
This material is based upon work that is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under award number 2014-51300-22244.