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User: Joe Simmons

Created on: 2013-11-11

Observation Date 2013-11-05

Comment:
Flail mowed LTER CE corn plots, biodiversity corn plots, biodiversity spring fallow plots, and corn stubble in the GLBRC bait crop around field 98. Treatments and plots that had corn stubble mowed in the CE study: CE1: 108, 202, 304, 401; CE3: 105, 207, 301, 403. Treatments and plots that had corn stubble mowed in the biodiversity study: B5: 114, 217, 312, 405; B8: 118, 214, 310, 408; B11: 110, 216, 309, 411; B13: 113, 212, 319, 413; B15: 112, 213, 301, 415; B18: 108, 208, 311, 418. Biodiversity spring fallow plots: B2: 102, 206, 316, 402. Flail mowed corn stubble in the GLBRC bait crop around field 98. Areas corn stubble was mowed in field 98: The 3rd, 4th, and 5th plots (in rep 6) east of the Rep 6 miscanthus plot. On the north edge of the field the north 30 ft of the 60 ft that is farmed. On the east edge the middle 30 ft of the 90 ft that is farmed. On the south edge the middle 30 ft of the 90 ft that is farmed. The area east of the brown house (Tappen House) also had the corn stubble mowed. Equipment used was the JD 7420b tractor and JD 115 flail mower.

Areas:
B11 B13 B15 B18 B2 B5 B8 CE1 CE3 GLBRC_Trap_Crop_Area

Observation Type:
Mowing

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