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dc.title: 2025 Impact of Biochar on Soil Chemical Properties and Corn Yield and Quality After Three Years dc.contributor.author: Darby, Heather; Ruhl, Lindsey dc.description.abstract: Biochar is a solid “charred” organic residue produced by heating plant material in the absence of oxygen (pyrolysis). Biochar tends to have high aromaticity and reduced oxygen to carbon and hydrogen to carbon ratios.…
dc.title: 2025 Impact of Biochar on Soil Chemical Properties and Corn Yield and Quality After Two Years dc.contributor.author: Darby, Heather; Ruhl, Lindsey dc.description.abstract: Biochar is a solid “charred” organic residue produced by heating plant material in the absence of oxygen (pyrolysis). Biochar tends to have high aromaticity and reduced oxygen to carbon and hydrogen to carbon ratios.…
dc.title: 2025 Corn and Perennial Forage Cropping Systems Impact on Soil Health and Crop Productivity dc.contributor.author: Darby, Heather; Ruhl, Lindsey dc.description.abstract: In 2025, UVM Extension’s Northwest Crops and Soils Program continued a multi-year trial at Borderview Research Farm in Alburgh, VT to assess the impact of corn cropping systems on overall health and productivity of the…
dc.title: 2025 Flint Corn Variety Trial dc.contributor.author: Darby, Heather; Ziegler, Sara dc.description.abstract: In the Northeast, there is a strong demand from consumers to have access to a wide range of locally produced food products. This demand creates opportunities for specialty value-added markets and crops to emerge. One market that has been gaining popularity and expanding recently in…
dc.title: 2025 Integrating Solar Corridors into Corn Silage Production Systems dc.contributor.author: Darby, Heather; Ziegler, Sara dc.description.abstract: Interseeding is a strategy to plant cover crops directly into a growing crop of corn silage providing for earlier planting to hopefully maximize the conservation and ecological benefits of the cover crop. However, there are several challenges…
dc.title: 2025 Forage Legume Variety Trial dc.contributor.author: Darby, Heather; Ziegler, Sara dc.description.abstract: In 2024, the University of Vermont Extension Northwest Crops and Soils Program initiated a trial evaluating forage yield and quality of an array of perennial forage legume species and varieties planted in monoculture. The grass species selected were alfalfa, birdsfoot trefoil,…
dc.title: 2025 Influence of Cutting Height and Frequency on Forage Yield and Quality dc.contributor.author: Darby, Heather; Ziegler, Sara dc.description.abstract: Harvest management is an integral component of producing high-quality forage. Often harvest timing and speed are discussed, but equally important cutting height and frequency. While many grazing farmers have adopted the practice of…
dc.title: 2025 Short Season Corn Silage Performance Trials Summary dc.contributor.author: Darby, Heather; Ziegler, Sara dc.description.abstract: 2025 Corn Silage Performance Trials Summary Conducted by Dr. Heather Darby and the University of Vermont Northwest Crops and Soils Program Short season corn (85-98 day relative maturity) silage hybrids in Alburgh, VT Planting Date: 13-May 2025 Harvest…
dc.title: 2025 Long Season Corn Silage Performance Trials Summary dc.contributor.author: Darby, Heather; Ziegler, Sara dc.description.abstract: 2025 Corn Silage Performance Trials Summary Conducted by Dr. Heather Darby and the University of Vermont Northwest Crops and Soils Program Long season corn (98-111 day relative maturity) silage hybrids in Alburgh, VT Planting Date: 13-May 2025 Harvest…
dc.title: New York and Vermont Corn Silage Hybrid Evaluation Program Field Crop Performance Network dc.contributor.author: Darby, Heather; Ziegler, Sara dc.description.abstract: Hybrid evaluation at multiple environments helps in decision making and expands the reach of this type of data to more farmers. Cornell, UVM, and seed companies collaborate to provide this evaluation. Hybrids were either…