Cover Crop Root Pits Reveal Plenty

One of the joys of working with farmers is the excitement I see on their faces when they "get it" about soil health.  There were several excited farmers again this spring.

During the first week of April I was in several root pits in northwest Indiana and boy did we find plenty of interesting factoids! I was assisted by Eileen Kladivko from Purdue University on one day and Barry Fisher, Indiana NRCS State Agronomist, on another day.

What We Found in the Cover Crop Root Pits . . . → Read More: Cover Crop Root Pits Reveal Plenty

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Cover Crops and Ray the Soil guy

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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 . . . → Read More: Cover Crops and Ray the Soil guy

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Cover crops for gardens – and my wife, the cover cropping queen!

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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 . . . → Read More: Cover crops for gardens – and my wife, the cover cropping queen!

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Earthworm Population Corn Field Experiment

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 . . . → Read More: Earthworm Population Corn Field Experiment

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66″ No-Till Corn Roots Following Cover Crops

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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 . . . → Read More: 66″ No-Till Corn Roots Following Cover Crops

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