Ohio Resource Conserving Crops for CSP (2009)

Identify for use in the Ohio, resource conserving crops that will be part of a resource-conserving crop rotation(s) that may receive a supplemental payment if adopted by a CSP participant.

The definitions and lists of resource conserving crops are:

1. A perennial grass, legume, or grass/legume grown for use as forage, seed for planting, or green manure. Grasses and legumes that meet this criteria are:

A. Legumes

• Alfalfa
• Alsike Clover
• Birdsfoot Trefoil
• Crownvetch
• Kura Clover
• Red Cover
• White Clover

B. Cool Season Grasses

• Fescue, Tall
• Fescue, Turf-Type Tall
• Garrison Creeping Foxtail
• Kentucky bluegrass
• Orchargrass
• Perennial Ryegrass
• Reed Canarygrass
• Smooth Bromegrass
• Timothy
• Wildrye, Canadian
• Wildrye, Virginia

C. Warm Season Grasses

• Big Bluestem
• Little Bluestem
• Eastern Gamagrass
• Indiangrass
• Switchgrass
• Lespedeza

2. High residue producing crops

• Corn (grain not silage)
• Small grain (winter or spring) Stubble left taller than 8”
• Any Hay in Rotation

3. A cover crop following an annual crop

A. Legumes (grown as cover crop) interseeded or planted in succession with an annual crop:

• Alfalfa
• Austrian Winter Pea
• Crimson Clover
• Hairy Vetch
• Kura Clover
• Red Clover
• Sweet Clover

B. Annual grasses or small grains (grown as cover crop) interseeded or planted in succession to an annual crop:

• Annual Ryegrass
• Barley, Cereal
• Oats, Cereal
• Rye, Cereal
• Sorghum-Sudangrass

C. Legume/grass mixtures (grown as cover crop) interseeded or grown in succession to annual crop:

• Any combination of A&B above.

D. Brassicas (grown as a cover crop) interseeded or grown in succession to an annual crop:

• Oil Seed Radish
• Kale
• Canola
• Turnips

E. Annual Forbs (grown as a cover crop) interseeded or grown in succession to an annual crop:

• Buckwheat

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