Eisenhower famously said “Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.” That resonates with a lot of farmers who know the theory of farming doesn’t always directly translate to the practice. Farmer and agronomist Frank Rademacher joins us to talk about what’s working on […]
Theory vs Practice in Soil Health with Frank Rademacher
Keyword: roller crimper
Residue Is King
Tyler Tobald of JTAC Farms in Kansas explains why he thinks residue is king. He shows a field where, less than 24 hours after rain, the spots with better residue coverage are still retaining moisture. He explains why he is excited to roller crimp the triticale cover crop he planted as soil armor.
Roller-Crimping Cereal Rye – A Live Demonstration – Virtual Field Day
Watch Levi roll-crimp a cereal rye cover crop with two goals in mind: 1). terminating the cover crop without herbicide or tillage and 2). laying down the cover crop as a mulch for weed control. Levi is a partner on a project headed by Kathleen Delate of Iowa State University investigating reduced tillage in organic […]
Cover Crops and Soil Health!!
After Mother Nature changes Matt’s plan, the Griggs Farms crew moves back to Crockett County to continue cotton planting and encounter some wild and wooly cover crops!
Roller Crimping Cereal Rye for Organic Soybeans in Michigan
Mark Vollmar of Vollmar Family Farms in Caro, Michigan discusses the use of cereal rye on his organic farm for weed management and soil improvement.
Update! No-tilling corn into alfalfa
Here is an update of the corn that we no-tilled into standing alfalfa.
Prairie Strips in Organic Grain: Mark Doudlah
Mark Doudlah is an organic grain farmer in Wisconsin who planted prairie strips to buffer his crops from pesticides from neighboring farms, control pests naturally, and prevent erosion.
Producer-Led Webinar Series: No-tilling into heavy red clays
Matt Winker and his wife Sarah milk 100 cows in Belgium, WI. They have been no-tilling into the heavy red clay soils that make-up their farmland for 7 years. Hear how Matt has made the impossible possible and about other conservation practices that have worked on their farm like interseeding and planting green using a […]
Planting Green for Roller Crimping
Join us as Sheldon Luehmann shares about why and how he’s planting into boot-stage cereal rye in preparation to roller crimp this cover crop in a couple of weeks at anthesis.
Early-season scouting of organic no-till soybean field in central Indiana
In this video, Purdue Extension Organic & Diversified Agriculture Educator, Michael O’Donnell, visits an organic no-till soybean field in central Indiana, looking at soybean growth stage relative to the rye cover crop, weed pressure, and challenges this field will face moving forward.