Recapping the previous two videos on how to implement reduced tillage and the potential cash flow options and cropping options of bringing in diversity vs a mono-crop system.
Reduced tillage, potential income from adding diversity
Resource Source: Jon Stevens Maple Grove Farms
Getting started with covers using herbicides
The cash crop has to come first, but we want to give the covers a chance. Like everything in farming, it’s a compromise. With a little practice you can start to see how the covers will start suppressing weeds. Tillage, commercial fertilizer, and herbicides aid in weeds becoming noxious on a mainstream farm.
Diversity, how to not lose $250k
With soil health and diversity, we are able to spread our workload out, letting us have more of a life.
60 inch corn soil health vs full tillage. How can a full tillage farm try 60 inch corn.
If a corn-bean guy is willing to try something new, this can be a great system, especially when some guys are seeing better yields in 60 inch. Seems twin 60s are the ones competing on yield. I am excited to see next year if we can keep alfalfa alive inside the 60 inch corn, for […]