Going into the winter with plenty of room in the manure pit sure does ease some stress. Check out this video to hear from Dan Brick from Brickstead Dairy, LLC, who shares how he got to this point and some of the application strategies he used this year.
Manure Season: A Success Story
State: Wisconsin
Drag Hose Manure Application
Deer Run Dairy LLC teamed up with DK Demo Farms and Heim Brothers Custom LLC this summer to use a drag hose system to apply manure to standing corn. This type of application is an excellent way to get manure out on a growing crop with little/no disturbance to the soil.
Producer-led Webinar Series: Alternative forages
Alternative forages – including sorghum sudan, triticale and rye cover crops – have provided conservation, soil heath, and feed benefits for Tony Brey’s dairy farm in Northeastern WI. Tony is an active member of Peninsula Pride Farms and the Door Kewaunee Demonstration Network. Barry Bubolz of the Natural Resource Conservation Service interviews Tony about his […]
No-Till Planting: New Horizons Dairy
Check out this video of Derek Van De Hey no-till planting into a field of oats and radishes. Conservation practices improve infiltration rates and soil stability, which allowed Derek to apply spring manure after planting was completed.
Maximizing Your Forage
Brey Cycle Farm LLC has been using no-till planting and cover crops to introduce diversity into their system and to help keep their valuable top soil protected, all while building soil health and structure.
No-Till Pumpkins
Check out these no-till pumpkins planted by Stan Kaczmarek and his cousins! After 2019, the soil loss from the heavy rains led Stan to rethink their pumpkin plantings. In the spring of 2020, they frost-seeded oats to keep the soil on the ground. After burning it off, they no-till planted their pumpkins into the cover […]
Planting into Cover Crops
Stopped out at Kane Farms today to look at their corn. Not only do they have about half of their corn planted, they already have great emergence. The combination of no-till planting and cover crops have made it possible for Pat to get out in the fields despite the heavy rains we’ve been experiencing!
Adding Cover Crop Diversity
It’s always great when you can find ways to add diversity into your system, but finding those windows can sometimes be a challenge. Earlier this month, Deer Run Dairy LLC, with the DK Demo Farms, made the decision to add red clover into a field that had a late season planting of winter wheat. While […]
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 […]
Virtual Field Tour with EPPIC in Marathon County 2020
Come along with Patrick Bula (Conservation Specialist for Marathon County) Jason Cavadini (UW Ag Research) & Matthew Oehmichen (Short Lane Ag Supply) as they visit 4 sites that emphasize our goals for optimal landscape management for forage systems using low disturbance and continuous cover.