@article{Lewton:189847,
      recid = {189847},
      author = {Lewton, Brian and Krall, James and Hess, Bret and Held,  Larry},
      title = {Substituting Medic, an Annual Legume, in Place of Summer  Fallow for Winter Wheat Production},
      journal = {Journal of the ASFMRA (American Society of Farm Managers  and Rural Appraisers)},
      address = {2009},
      number = {387-2016-22834},
      pages = {9},
      year = {2009},
      abstract = {An Australian “ley” farming type of
system, which  integrates medic
pasture with livestock in place  of
conventional summer fallow, is a
promising technology  having the
potential to provide important
benefits for  improving winter wheat
production in the Central  High
Plains of the United States. Medic is
an annual legume  that regenerates
yearly from a soil seed bank, and in
the  pasture phase of the cropping
sequence, it provides hay or  grazing
for livestock. Farming systems with
medics form the  foundation for
flexible and sustainable semiarid
wheat  farming systems in Australia.
This article reports the  performance
of a specific medic specie (Medicago
rigidula),  which can replace fallow
for more profitable winter  wheat
production in the U.S. Central High
Plains.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/189847},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.189847},
}