Managing urban soils project by Michigan State University Extension's Detroit Partnership for Food, Learning, and Innovation
This field study analyzed how tillage and cover crop mixes affected agriculturally relevant urban soil functions, including compaction depth, soil water infiltration rates, weed pressure, and yield.
Highlights --
- Roto-till improves urban soil compaction and infiltration vs. no-till
- Tractor-till improves compaction but not infiltration and also increases weeds
- Cover crop mixes suppress weeds
- Forage radish yield not affected by till or cover crop mixes
- Roto-till and cover crop mixes help improve soils for urban agriculture
Files use info --
- Col-row pairs distiguish plots.
- Recent analysis code DOI citable via Zenodo.org --
- More study information and context in report preprint with additional citable DOI, and can be reproduced by knitting merge.Rmd into PDF in RStudio, after installing required packages.
