October, 2020
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SARDA Ag Research News
SARDA AG Research Published in Crop, Forage & Turfgrass Scientific journals are a collection of articles that have been subjected to a process of quality control known as “peer review.” Peer review involves subjecting researchers’ work to the scrutiny of experts in the same field. These experts evaluate the article with regards to validity, repeatability and originality. The paper is also judged on readability, logicality and whether the conclusions are well-founded and well-constructed. If the article falls within the scope of the Journal, it may be recommended to publication, usually after ensuring it meets the required format. There are many different Journals that SARDA Ag Research projects have been published in, such as the Canadian Journal of Plant Science, Journal of Agricultural Sciences and the Journal of Plant Nutrition, to name a few. The latest article, “Forage potential of corn intercrops for beef cattle diets in Northwestern Alberta,” was published in the Crop, Forage & Turfgrass Management on behalf of the American Society of Agronomy and Crop Science
Most scientists regarded the new streamlined peer-reviewed process as ‘quite an improvement’
Society of America. The article was compiled with the cooperation of individuals from the Peace Country Beef and Forage Association, the Department of Animal and Poultry Science at the University of Saskatchewan, the Department of Renewable Resources, Faculty of Agricultural Life & Environmental Sciences at the University of Alberta, and SARDA Ag Research and published on July 4, 2020. The abstract and conclusions follow. To read the complete paper with the results and methodology, please visit https://drive.google.com/ file/d/1fJS64Wl6me4nvGZ5w1TNN0vpaeyFEFtV/ view?usp=sharing
Abbreviations: ACM
annual crops mixture
C-ACM CC C-CC
corn intercrop with annual crops mixture crimson clover corn intercrop with crimson clover
C-FB C-FP C-HV C-M C-RA C-SB FB FP HV RA SB
corn intercrop with fababean corn intercrop with field pea corn intercrop with hairy vetch corn monocrop corn intercrop with radish corn intercrop with soybean fababean field pea hairy vetch radish soybean
