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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…
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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”…
Grasses are king when it comes to growing cover crops for supplemental grazing. In addition to being the highest yielding family of cover crops, they are vital in reaching other cover cropping goals such as reducing erosion, building organic matter, and suppressing weeds. Warm-season C4 plants such as sorghum sudan…
When people think of grazing forages, they often think of fencing the whole field with one location for water and mineral and continuously grazing the whole herd until all the forage is eaten. This type of grazing can be destructive to soil health and productivity as it leads to compaction,…