Ag, Water, and Processing Vegetables

Source: Field Notes, University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension

Guolong Liang, outreach specialist for the Agriculture Water Quality Program of Extension in the Central Sands of Wisconsin, guest hosts this episode of Field Notes. Guolong talks with UW-Madison Horticulture Professor and Extension Specialist Jed Colquhoun about the use of cover crops to reduce nutrient runoff in canning and processing vegetables. For the farmer perspective, he chats with John Ruzicka of Guth Farms in Bancroft, Wisconsin and Dylan Moore, a Seneca Foods Field Representative, about Guth Farm’s journey in integrating no-till and cover crops into their processing vegetable rotations.

Length: 31:39

Year Produced: 2023

State: Wisconsin

Cropping Systems: Vegetables

Tags: Reduce Runoff, water quality