*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF* *for sustainable agriculture, land use and ecosystem management* Dear Subscribers, Please see herebelow a link to the podcast on Cover Crop Research and No-Till Organic Systems with Dr. Erin Silva. Apologies for any cross-posting. *Amir Kassam * *Moderator* *Global CA-CoP* e-mail: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture URL: http://www.act-africa.org/ URL: https://ecaf.org/ URL: http://www.caa-ap.org/ *Conservation Agriculture (CA) is an ecological approach to regenerative sustainable agriculture and ecosystem management based on the practical application of context-specific and locally adapted three interlinked principles of: (i) Continuous no or minimum mechanical soil disturbance (no-till seeding/planting and weeding, and minimum soil disturbance with all other farm operations including harvesting); (ii) permanent maintenance of soil mulch cover (crop biomass, stubble and cover crops); and (iii) diversification of cropping system (economically, environmentally and socially adapted rotations and/or sequences and/or associations involving annuals and/or perennials, including legumes and cover crops).* *These practices are complemented with other complementary good agricultural production and land management practices to generate and sustain optimum performance.* *CA systems are present in all continents, involving rainfed and irrigated systems including annual cropland systems, perennial systems, orchards and plantation systems, agroforestry systems, crop-livestock systems, pasture and rangeland systems, organic production systems and rice-based systems. CA systems operate regeneratively at multiple levels to optimally harness a range of productivity, economic, environmental, and social benefits as well as address local and global concerns related to food and water security, climate change, land degradation, biodiversity and smallholder agricultural development.* *Conservation Tillage, Reduced Tillage, Low tillage and Minimum Tillage are not CA, and nor is No-Till on its own. For a practice or a method to be referred to as a CA practice or method, it must be part of a CA system. If not, then it is what it is, a practice or a method similar to any other with its own* *name e.g., no-till seeding, or mulching, or crop diversification, etc. There is no such thing as partial CA.* ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Julia Gerlach, Cover Crop Strategies < [log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, 1 May 2022 at 23:01 Subject: [Podcast] The Latest on Cover Crop Research and No-Till Organic Systems with Dr. Erin Silva To: <[log in to unmask]> Hello Amir, For this week’s podcast episode, sponsored by La Crosse Seed <https://lessiter.omeclk.com/portal/wts/uemcnc-dnf6baQ%5EycsExqcorr0fc>, we're joined by Dr. Erin Silva, associate professor of organic and sustainable cropping systems at the University of Wisconsin, to take an in-depth look at the potential benefits of interseeding into soybeans, getting covers established early and much more. Dr. Silva breaks down some of the big developments at the university's Arlington Research Station, including a look at how winter triticale is being used as a cover crop. We'll also discuss the latest research on cover crop no-till corn systems. Listen to the FREE episode here >> <https://lessiter.omeclk.com/portal/wts/ugmcnc-dnf6baQ%5EycsEx6corr0f68kCs7cAx9stla> Thanks for listening, *Julia Gerlach* Executive Editor, *Cover Crop Strategies* 16655 W. Wisconsin Ave, Brookfield, WI 53005 Update <https://lessiter.omeclk.com/portal/preferences/?EJEoWTAQNt8BDF%2BMYEQz9rX4hjC8lJrnA> your email preferences or unsubscribe <https://lessiter.omeclk.com/portal/unsubscribeconfirm/?EJEoWTAQNt8BDF%2BMYEQz9rX4hjC8lJrnA> 25A5835C-FB58-5342-B8EB-DA109BE28C32 init_ums init_ums ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF);