Living Lab-Ontario farm cooperator, Ken Laing and Living Lab-Atlantic collaborator, Ryan Barrett from the PEI Potato Board discuss results of growing potatoes with cover crops.

For Ken, his trials involve planting organic potatoes into a standing cover crop of rye/hairy vetch, mowing the cover crop and letting the potatoes grow without any tillage for weeds or hilling.

Ryan discusses trials run with PEI potato growers that involve testing various fall-planted cover crops ahead of conventional potato production.

Learn about the details of these systems, including their successes, challenges, and next steps through short presentations about the trials followed by Q & A. 

You can watch the video here.