NE-SARE roller research newsletter debuts

Posted March 15, 2007: Two organic farmers—one in Maryland and one in Pennsylvania—are paying special attention to some of their fields as winter breaks, monitoring the survival of experimental cover crop plantings of legumes and winter grains.

These producers are part of a cooperative research project between The Rodale Institute and Pennsylvania State University to develop best practices for using no-till cover crop rollers in the Northeast. (This work is parallel to, but separate from, a nationwide cover-crop roller adaptation project supervised by the Institute and funded by the Natural Resources Conservation Service).

You can follow the progress on this project—funded by the USDA’s Northeast Sustinainable Agriculture Research Education (SARE) program—through a newswsletter produced by Penn State grad student Ruth Mick.