AGRI 215 Lecture Notes - Crop Rotation, Brassica
7 Dec 2011
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Brings nutrients to to top when using deep roots, shallow roots aerate the soil. Timing is different for diff crops, different seed bed, different harvesting equipment. Have to know when something is read, how to plant the different crops, their different requirements etc. Has to fit within the needs of the farm. Potatoes to onions to brassica to beans (4 years) Dry-land field crops: chick peas and lentils are grown in canada (most those we eat) Interspersing small grain between potatoe, in pei being pushed. But huge different in profit, - maybe if your in a dairy area, but otherwise no. Hay is maintained for 3 years (seeded once) then annuals are planted in rotation. Called hay 1, ha2, hay3, there is change over time, 2 and 3 may not have the same nutrients etc look up black fowl. P205 is a convention, doesn"t exist it is a compound. K20 doesn"t exist, it is water soluble k.
