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 Ray Archuleta and I after we spoke at the Southern Indiana Grazing Conference on soil health and cover crops. Over the past three years I have had the privilege of speaking at a number of meetings when Ray Archuleta is also on the agenda. Ray is a tremendous source of knowledge and information on soil health . . . → Read More: Cover Crops and Ray the Soil guy   My wife Sally must love me…or at least she is observant to see how cover crops are improving the soil in our family gardens. Over the nearly 19 years we have lived in our home we have had a garden where we often have raised vegetables for the Hispanic families that we minister to. A few . . . → Read More: Cover crops for gardens – and my wife, the cover cropping queen!  Leave a comment  Austrian Winter Peas, Breaking Up Compaction, Cover Crop Benefits, Cover Crop Roots, Cover Crops and Earthworms, Crimson Clover, Education, Red Clover, Soil Improvement, Turnips, Types of Cover Crops, Weed Suppression  chilis, cover crops, earthworms, flowers, improved varieties. cover crops for gardens, peppers, reducing compaction Robison Farms in the Greenwood, Indiana area have been no-till farming since the late 1960′s. The field that these videos were taken from has been no-tilled for approximately 20 consecutive years. With the wet spring of 2011 the gentleman that now does the field work for dad decided to chisel plow and disk most of the . . . → Read More: Earthworm Population Corn Field Experiment  This is not a scene from a horror flick…it's a scene from Frank Gibb's experiment showing that smoke was coming up from the tile drains over 200 feet from the tile entry point. I had a “see it to believe it” moment in late August near Stryker, Ohio (Williams County – NW Ohio). A very long . . . → Read More: 66″ No-Till Corn Roots Following Cover Crops Medium Red Clover frost seeded into wheat provides good nitrogen production and excellent forage/green manure. Frost seeding clover into wheat has been a standard practice for many years. Many producers have used “60/40 Plowdown Clover” in their wheat…but in many areas that practice has stopped as double crop soybean plantings have pushed further into northern Ohio, . . . → Read More: Medium Red Clover as a cover crop |
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