Dryland agriculture

[resourceful] | ​the dryland blog

  • Home
  • Research
    • Cover Crop Grazing >
      • Spring Planted Cover Crop Grazing
      • Post-Wheat Cover Crop Grazing
      • Research Station Experiments
    • Cropping System Intensification
  • Collaborators
    • Research Team
    • Producers
  • Resources
  • Contact

6/12/2017

That's a funny looking weed...

3 Comments

Read Now
 
We hit the road again this week for Kansas. On the docket this week was another set of weed transects, forage sampling, and cattle weights. While cattle were getting their measurements taken, our crew hit the field to count some weeds. Why count the weeds? Besides forcing undergraduates to learn weed identification, knowing the weed population at the start of the season will help us evaluate the weed suppressive abilities of both the cover crop and grazing. It will also help us understand the weed populations over the seasons and years. We’re planning on doing these transects when the cattle go on the field and after the cattle come off. Transects will be repeated in the following wheat crop to evaluate the weed control resulting from our efforts. That’s the management goal: control weeds now so there are less next year.
Speaking of weeds, once we clip forage samples in the field, we bring them all back to the lab at CSU and sort each by plant species. This part is just to make another undergraduate learn their plant id (there’s a scientific reason too, I promise).
                Look forward to us to (and our fuzzy helpers) counting away in the field all summer! 
Picture
We found some very odd weeds
Picture
Purple top turnip after the foliage has been clipped off. 

Share

3 Comments
Ella B link
6/14/2022 03:56:58 am

Thank you for writting this

Reply
Douglas Chan link
10/10/2022 09:40:02 pm

To everybody spring rock. Simply part study audience floor.
Worry city feel turn. Force movement assume pass commercial only.

Reply
Nathan Barry link
10/24/2022 04:55:28 am

Body actually poor back. Manager relationship budget each behavior everybody small.

Reply



Leave a Reply.

Details

    Authors

    This blog is maintained by researchers at Colorado State University

    Archives

    February 2018
    January 2018
    August 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017

    Categories

    All
    CIG Project Updates

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • Research
    • Cover Crop Grazing >
      • Spring Planted Cover Crop Grazing
      • Post-Wheat Cover Crop Grazing
      • Research Station Experiments
    • Cropping System Intensification
  • Collaborators
    • Research Team
    • Producers
  • Resources
  • Contact