With a grant from California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Specialty Crop Block Grant Program, Joji Muramoto and Carol Shennan (UCSC ENVS) worked with UC Cooperative Extension farm advisors to examine the effect of high carbon organic amendment on reducing nitrate leaching in rainy winters from fields where nitrogen-rich cole crop residues were incorporated. The initial results were encouraging and trials will continue with a grant from the CDFA Fertilizer Research and Education Program.
Center for Agroecology/UCSC Participants: Joji Muramoto, Carol Shennan
Collaborators: Richard Smith and Laura Tourte (UC Cooperative Extension)
Funding: CA Department of Food and Agriculture