Re: alfalfa for N scavenging

Frederick R. Magdoff (fmagdoff@zoo.uvm.edu)
Thu, 5 Nov 1998 11:15:42 -0500 (EST)

Ann,
if the problem is practices of their neighbors, alfalfa is not
going to clean up a high nitrate groundwater. ANd the only way the nitrate
will get to under their land is through flow with the groundwater. They
need to work with the neighbor instead of planting alfalfa on their own
land.

FRED

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On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, E. Ann Clark, Associate Professor wrote:

> Fred: I don't seem to be communicating very well on this. The
> problem is not on land that they own. It is from neighbors, whose
> cropping practices they do not control. They want to safeguard their
> water supply from contamination from outside their property. Shallow
> rooted grass species on their own property will not solve this
> problem. Ann
>
> ACLARK@plant.uoguelph.ca
> Dr. E. Ann Clark
> Associate Professor
> Crop Science
> University of Guelph
> Guelph, ON N1G 2W1
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