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Legumes for Resource Conservation Programs
Updated
12/10/2008
Legumes play a major role in
production agriculture and resource conservation. Legumes can
serve to enhance conservation tillage systems, improve soil
quality, reduce nitrogen requirements on row crop and pasture
land, enhance wildlife habitat, enhance pasture and hay land
quality and reduce soil erosion in cropland and critical areas.
In parts of the United States, legumes are planted with grasses
to improve livestock performance and extend the grazing season.
Perennial native legumes are included in native mixtures to
increase species diversity, restore range condition and enhance
wildlife habitat. In a perennial grass and legume mixture,
legumes not only supply their own nitrogen, but they also supply
approximately one third of the nitrogen needs of the grasses
growing with them. Other herbaceous legumes are used in critical
area planting mixtures to revegetate disturbed sites such as
roadsides and surface mined lands.
Legumes released by the plant materials program can be
categorized under four major uses: conservation tillage;
wildlife habitat; pasture, hay and rangeland; and disturbed site
rehabilitation.
Legumes to address resource conservation concerns:
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Publications
If you encounter any problems with the files provided on this page, please
contact Leslie Glass at 701-250-4330.
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Legumes
for Resource Conservation Programs (PDF; 2,885 KB) August, 2007
Yield
of Eastern Gamagrass with Interseeded Legumes - ASA Abstract. (PDF; 38 KB) Salon,
P. and M. Schmidt. 2000
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