Hear from Chelsea, Marie, and Jeff Marggi from McFarlane Manufacturing, as we give the farmers some time to plant in peace. Bruce plants soybean into cereal rye on May 13th while crimping.
Planting Soybeans Green with a McFarlane Roller Crimper
State: Wisconsin
Alfalfa and Sorghum Sudan
We checked in with Neighborhood Dairy who took a new approach to planting their alfalfa. To increase tonnage, they planted 8 pounds of sorghum sudan grass with their alfalfa (16 pounds).
Interseeder Brickstead Dairy
Interseeder Technologies provides an efficient way to get cover crops established early. We are fortunate to have two 6-row InterSeeders and one 12-row InterSeeder available to producers in the Lower Fox Watershed.
LIVE from the Field: Diversified Cover Crop Soil Pit
We went #LIVEfromtheField at Augustian Farms LLC with Aaron Augustian and Nick Guilette. Fields coming out of alfalfa tend to have issues with compaction due to heavy truck traffic. So Augustian Farms LLC planted a mix of tillage radish, purple-top turnips, winter rye, and red clover. The radish and turnips help reduce compaction, while also […]
New Seeding: Establish with Cover Crops
In a conventional system, the establishment year of new seeding alfalfa is the year in a dairy rotation where we see the highest levels of soil loss. To avoid this, farms like Deer Run Dairy LLC with DK Demo Farms and Peninsula Pride Farms, Inc. are planting their new seeding into standing cover crops and […]
Augustian Interseeding
We checked in with Augustian Farms LLC and their interseeded fields. Interseeding not only gives your cover crops a head start, but it saves time in the fall too. Aaron rented Brown County’s Interseeder and the results were fantastic!
Options for Unsuccessful Rye
Did you find yourself harvesting corn too late to plant cover crops? Did you get cover crops in, but have little success? Check out what our neighbors with the DK Demo Farms are doing and how Deer Run Dairy LLC is working to get cover crops established. This field has been under no-till conditions for […]
Covers After Alfalfa
Fields coming out of alfalfa tend to have issues with compaction due to heavy truck traffic, so Augustian Farms LLC planted a mix of tillage radish, purple-top turnips, and winter rye. The radish and turnips help reduce compaction, while also pulling up nitrogen that’s released from the alfalfa die off. For Aaron, building soil health […]
An earful: Mike Maguire shares his drone
In this episode of An Ear Full, we visit the Maguire Family Farm where Mike shares with us his Rantizo drone. Mike is a contract applicator for Rantizo and a certified applicator for both field and food crops. He walks us through how he uses this new technology on his own farm to apply cover […]
Broadcast seeding of cover crops with a fertilizer spreader and GPS
Producers of Lake Redstone member Brian Daugs shares his success seeding cover crops with his fertilizer spreader and GPS. He farms in Western Wisconsin and is a Discovery Farms Participant in on-farm, edge-of-field water quality research.