Post emerge spray day in our herbicide banding x cover crop experiment. We are banding herbicide over the rows and seeding cover crops in between. We have found that we can band spray soybean, grow a cover crop, and yield better than the provincial average all while reducing herbicide use by 73%!

The last of our spuds are in the ground! Time to try direct seeded potatoes into terminated cover crops. #potato

Testing out our new sweep plough for cover crop termination. Seems there is a fine line between skimming the surface and burying it in the soil. This time it worked

It's spud time! First two of eight trials hand planted today. Here we are testing methods of terminating legumes without glyphosate prior to potatoes and evaluating carryover effects and leaching potential

Smiting plants with the power of Zeus! First day out testing our new Weed Zapper yesterday. A few hiccups along the way but excited to see how things look today

New toy arrived today. Too bad it's pouring rain again

Dope #weedscience #science #academicsky

I think I remember what the sun looks like. It's rained every day for nearly two weeks and the forecast ahead isn't looking any different #PEI #AtlCdn

One last final day of sampling for the season. Hard to believe we are still out collecting biomass in November

Seeding cover crops after potato harvest has been gaining traction over the past few years in Atlantic Canada. Yesterday I was out checking on our test plots evaluating different species sown post-harvest to see which provides the best soil cover overwinter. #sustainable #agriculture #plantscience