In this Land Stewardship Project Soil Builders’ Network video, southeastern Minnesota farmer Tom Pyfferoen shows how he sets up his planter for seeding cover crops.
Planter Setup for Cover Crops
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Conservation on a Dime: Building Your Own Cover Crop Interseeder
In this Land Stewardship Project Soil Builders’ Network video, southeastern Minnesota farmer Ed McNamara describes how he modified used equipment to build a low-cost planter that can interseed cover crops into V6 corn.
Drones in Agriculture: What’s All the Buzz About?
Ever wondered how a drone can help you better manage your farm? Check out the latest ‘buzz’ about drones as Iowa State University Extension and Outreach field ag engineer Brian Dougherty chats with Ryan Gibbs, owner of Gibbsfield Ag LLC, about how he uses drones as part of his custom spraying and cover crop business. […]
Cover Crop Champions – Part 2
Jack Sommers and Tim McDaniel, farmers in Champaign County, talk about how they got started using cover crops and what it means for their operation today. We talk about equipment, species used and benefits, including the economics of it. Episode 57 of Agronomy and Farm Management podcast.
Last Minute Planter Adjustments
No matter how extensively you checked and adjusted your planter over the winter, there are always “game-time” adjustments that will be needed. Barry Fisher, recently retired from NRCS and AJ Adkins, NTM Agriculture, discuss the settings and adjustments they feel are critical to getting a solid stand when no-tilling and/or using cover crops.
Cover Crops Virtual Field Day: Managing cover crops for cattle and soil health
Jack Thornton discusses cover crops and ways to manage them with cattle and soil health.
Interseeding Cover Crops Into Corn
We use a John Deere 8300 grain drill to interseed cover crops into our corn crop. Interseeding is one method of adding diversity to a field that would otherwise be a monoculture ecosystem. The variety of different species coexisting together creates good soil structure, provides root exudates that feed the biological life below ground, breaks […]
Changing our focus….From Yield to ROI/NPPA. Successful V3 Corn Interseeding from SE MN
Journey into regenerative agriculture with us, as we walk through how to maintain corn yield while growing a 15 way cover crop mix! Luke Bergler, Lance Klessig, and Mike Steinfeldt share this journey into soil health, unpack the 6 SH principles and explain how to interseed diverse cover crop mixes into V3/V4 corn. Cover crops […]
How to Plant into Cover Crops
In this video, we detail what we’ve learned about what works and what doesn’t on planter setup into high biomass (30,000+ lbs/acre) cover crops. This video is not meant to be a definitive guide on how to plant into cover crops. It is meant to show you what works for us and to give you […]
Wiese Bros’ Soil Warrior
This video, taken on August 30, 2016, demonstrates how Wiese Brothers Farms applied 15,000 gallons of liquid manure using the Soil Warrior, a low-disturbance applicator. By using the Soil Warrior, they were able to apply manure immediately after taking corn silage off, maintain soil structure for healthy soils, and plant cover crops as soon as […]