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Cover Crop Breeding Field Walk - Freeville, NY

Tue, Apr 25

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Freeville

Join us for a field walk to see what's new and next in winter cover crops! Tour variety trials, planting date trials, seeding rate trials, and breeding nurseries for cereal rye, winter pea, hairy vetch, and crimson clover. RSVP's are helpful but not required -- if you're free, come join us!

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Cover Crop Breeding Field Walk - Freeville, NY
Cover Crop Breeding Field Walk - Freeville, NY

Time & Location

Apr 25, 2023, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Freeville, 133 Fall Creek Rd, Freeville, NY 13068, USA

About the event

for fall emergence, winter survival, spring vigor, high biomass, hard seed, and non-shattering pods. In 2022, we began breeding cereal rye specifically for overwinter cover crop use.Since 2015, the Cover Crop Breeding Network has been breeding fall-sown legume cover crops

are ready to release in 2023, and much more is still in development.The CCB Network’s first hairy vetch and winter pea varieties

We’ll walk the plots for about 2 hours, talk about what we’re seeing (and not seeing) in the plants, and discuss ongoing and future projects. We’ll visit:Join us for a field walk to see what’s new & next!

  • - Crimson clover, hairy vetch, and winter peaVariety trials

  • - Cereal rye and winter peaPlanting date trials

  • - Cereal rye and winter lentilSeeding rate trials

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