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7 Crop Groups in our Project

3/16/2023

All the sites in our project fall into one of seven crop groups. Most groups include both organic and conventional fields.

Dryland Grains: Dryland wheat and millet, no irrigation, using a crop-fallow system.
Commodity Row Crops: Irrigated crops like corn, triticale, wheat, hemp, beans, sugar beets, barley, millet, and silage.
Commercial Vegetable/Flower/Fruit: Irrigated vegetables, flowers and fruit, sold commercially.
Perennial Hay/Alfalfa/Pasture: Irrigated perennial pasture systems of grass, hay, and alfalfa.
Home Gardens: Vegetables, flowers, and fruit trees for home consumption.
Non-farm Grasslands: Dryland grasslands with no recent tillage or farming practices.
Trees: Forests and tree farms.

Sites with excessive phosphorus have good soil health scores, and applied manure or compost to the field.

8/14/2022

Excessive soil phosphorus from manure and compost

Some (mostly organic) growers have very high phosphorus levels.

8/14/2022

Excessive phosphorus for mostly organic growers

Organic and Conventional growers have the same median soil health score.

8/11/2022

organic and conventional have same soil health

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