University of California
Cover Crop Research and Education Summaries
1994-1996
![ANNUAL CROPPING SYSTEMS](images/1.gif)
San Benito County cover crop trials
Richard Smith
Release of Nitrogen from a leguminous
cover crop and the subsequent utilization by bell pepper
Richard Smith et al.
Non-leguminous cover crops in cool-season
vegetable crop systems
Louise Jackson and Lisa Wyland
Phacelia, Lana woollypod vetch, and Austrian
winter pea: Three new cover crop hosts of Sclerotinia minor
in California
Steven Koike et al.
Alternative to soil fumigation: Sealing
soil amended with cover crop residues containing biotoxic volatile
compounds
James Stapleton
Evaluation of three control measures for
Verticillium wilt in processing tomatoes: Sudangrass cover crop,
field corn, and metham
Gene Miyao and Mike Davis
In-field insectaries for vegetable crops
Bill Chaney
Suppression of yellow starthistle by subterranean
clover, mowing and grazing
Craig Thomsen et al.
Changes in soil water depletion in winter-fallowed
and clover-cropped soils
Jeff Mitchell et al.
A cropping systems approach to improving
water use efficiency in semi-arid irrigated
production areas
Jeff Mitchell et al.
Cover crops for saline soils
Jeff Mitchell
Summer-grown sudan grass as a substitute
for deep tillage preceding processing tomato production
Gene Miyao et al.
Nonleguminous cover crops to reduce nitrate
leaching in vegetable cropping systems
Louise Jackson et al.
Straw and cover crop management in rice
production
Stuart Pettygrove et al.
Summer and fall cover crops for annual
rotations
Mark Van Horn
Preliminary survey results: The status
of cover cropping in annual crop rotations
Anne-Marie Ridgley
Cover cropping in Ontario
John W. Potter
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Evaluation of five cover crop species
or mixes for nitrogen production and weed suppression in Sacramento Valley
farming systems
Diana Friedman et al.
Evaluation and performance of winter
legume and legume/cereal mixtures under till and no-till management
Harold Gerletti
Effect of cover crop decomposition on
soil microbial communities, nutrient cycling and suppressiveness
to damping-off pathogens
Niklaus Grünwald et al.
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Cover crops for weed control in vineyards
Clyde Elmore et al.
The effects of cover crops and compost
on grapevine nutrition and growth
Donna Hirschfelt et al.
Influence of ground covers on vineyard
predators and leafhoppers
Michael Costello and Kent Daane
Integrating cover crops into grapevine
pest and nutrition management: The transition phase
Rachid Hanna et al.
Effects of orchard-floor management on
stink bug pests of pistachio
Paul da Silva and Kent Daane
Leguminous cover-crop residues in orchard
soils: Decomposition and fate of nitrogen
Alison M. Berry et al.
Evaluation of Medicago species
as self reseeding cover crops for vineyards
Peter Christensen and Walter Graves
Orchard floor management to optimize
pear fruit finish
Glenn McGourty
Soil-building with cover crops in California
almond orchards
Lonnie Hendricks
Apple tree nutrition as related to cover
crop and fertilization management
Roland Meyer and Paul Vossen
![OTHER SUMMARIES](images/4.gif)
Economic consideration for cover crops
Karen Klonsky
Cover crop education project
Ann Mayse and David Chaney
Grower comments from citrus cover crop
field meeting
Nick Sakovich and Ben Faber