Your most limiting factor…its not what you think it is! If you were to ask a hundred farmers in southeast Kansas what their most limiting factor is, they would probably tell you “rainfall”. If you were to ask a hundred fertilizer dealers in southeast Kansas what the most limiting factor…
Remember when we thought Roundup Ready crops were the answer to all our weed control problems, and we could have perfectly clean crop fields with an application or two of cheap glyphosate? Now it seems glyphosate controls only a few weeds, and we have more weed problems than ever….
Previous Webinars December 22nd – Dale Strickler – “Restoring the Skin of the Earth” December 15th – Rick Clark & Dan DeSutter – “Is Organic No-till Possible?” December 8th – Dr. Christine Jones – “The Phosphorus Paradox” December 1st – Adam Daugherty – “High functioning agro-ecological systems” November 24th –…
Green Cover Seed, headquartered in Bladen, NE is very excited to announce that we are opening a second location to better serve our customers and to better reach people with the message of hope and change that regenerating our soils can deliver. We have purchased a 54,000 ft2 facility in…
This article is courtesy of Don Baune, Co-Founder of Grassland Oregon Seed For alfalfa producers needing to renovate fields suffering from winterkill or looking to increase the quality and yield of this season’s hay crop, improved cover crop varieties are a viable solution. Take berseem clover, for example. The synergistic…
The Secret Behind the Power of Diversity Multispecies Grazing: A Primer on Diversity A Case Study of Soil Improvement Which Cover Crops are Best for Grazing? Adaptive Multi Paddock Grazing Supplemental Grazing Nitrogen: The Double Edged Sword Quorum Sensing in the Soil Microbiome Grassfed Beed and Soil Health: Profit, Possibilities…
It has been observed that a mixture of plants often performs better than a monoculture of the best performing plant in the mix, an observation that defies “common sense”. Dr. Norman Gentsch from the Institute of Soil Science at Leibniz University Hannover says, “In biodiverse mixes, specific species or varieties…
By Lee Rinehart, NCAT Agriculture Specialist Resilient farms are based on diversity of life, and while much of the focus of agricultural sustainability of late has been on diversity of crops, forages, and soil microbial populations, not much has been said about the diversity of grazing species. Multispecies grazing takes…
By Kevin Schilthuis • Lovell, Wyoming We are farming irrigated entisols, which are known to have high mineral content but little biological activity. We would much rather be farming the more productive mollisol soils, but since you play the hand that you were dealt, we have developed a “mollisolve cocktail”…
