Increasing Varietal Suitability and Availability of Cowpea and Forage Radish Cover Crop Seed for Northern Climates

Project Objective

To add to the functional agronomic value of forage radish and cowpea cover crops through farmer-led
selection for traits of interest and to the economic value of the cover crop seed by providing cultivars with
documented performance and suitability to seed production in northern climates.

FBC radish selections from the field day at Emily Stiegelmier’s farm in November, 2016.

Cowpea demonstration at Scottsbluff, NE in 2016.

Cowpea grow out in Puerto Rico

Radish evaluation plots at Carrington in 2016.