Carl Zimmerman’s Soil Health Journey
Cropping System: Soybean
Do We Need Subsoil Tillage With Cover Crops?
In this video, learn about grain farmer Nick’s Kleiber’s experience doing subsoil tillage. Find out what differences, or lack of differences, he’s seeing between full subsoil tillage with and without a cover crop.
Establishing Prairie Strips in a Cash Crop System
Dale installed a pollinator strip last year. When asked why he’s using one, he said, “I had thought about doing a harvestable buffer strip in the past, but I don’t have livestock to use the forage, so I never did one. But when I found out about doing a native prairie with a pollinator strip, […]
Interseeding Demo with Zeb Zuehls
Learn about Zeb Zuehls cover crop species, timing, chemical program, and some trials he’s doing. Then watch as he demonstrates interseeding cover crops into corn using the Outagamie County Land Conservation Department 6 row Interseeder.
Strip-till Farming with Rotational Grazing, Poultry, and Stacking Slab in Minnesota
Producer Roy Schneider has been working with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for many years. Roy farms about 400 acres near Foley Minnesota and has implemented strip-till farming practices, rotational cattle grazing, a poultry operation, and built a covered stacking slab through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP). […]
Innovations in Farm Equipment for Growing No-till and Strip-till Corn and Soybeans with Cover Crops
Producer Matt Tiffany talks with Holly Hatlewick, District Administrator, Renville SWCD about the innovative farm equipment that he uses to grow no-till and strip-till corn and soybeans with cover crops. Matt talks about the adjustments he has made to his Sunflower vertical tillage unit, his flexible twin-bin strip-till equipment, and his fertilizer bander unit that […]
On-Farm, Episode 020: John Rock
In this episode, we talk with John Rock, who raises cattle and row crops in northwest Iowa near near the picturesque Little Sioux River. We chat about his experience grazing cattle on neighboring land owned by The Nature Conservancy and cedar tree removal and native prairie restoration on his own farm.
On-Farm, Episode 018: Dick Sloan
In this episode, we talk prairie strips with northeast Iowa farmer Dick Sloan. We talk about why Dick decided to plant prairie strips, what they are, and what it takes to install and manage them.