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”…
By Tim Goodnight • Pharo Cattle Company The Program: In early 2018, Tyson Foods approached Cactus Feeders about developing a grassfed beef program due to growing retail demand. Cactus quickly realized that to produce premium grassfed beef they were going to have to select the best genetics available, improve soil…
Spring Green Manure Featuring Burkey Farms • Dorchester, Nebraska Sometimes full season row crops, adverse fall harvest conditions, or lack of manpower limit opportunities for good fall cover crop establishment. All is not lost as some producers are taking a “Plan B” approach and planting a diverse cover crop mixture…
Poly Cropping with Multiple Cash Crops Axten Farms • Minton, Saskatchewan The act of poly cropping is the concept of growing two or more crops at one time to harvest. There are multiple benefits to this technique including: Reduced fertilizer use (when one crop is a legume). Higher combined profit…
By Ray Archuleta • Greensboro, North Carolina Ray Archuleta is one of our all-time favorite “soil guys”. He is a Certified Professional Soil Scientist with the Soil Science Society of America and has over 30 years experience as a Soil Conservationist, Water Quality Specialist, and Conservation Agronomist with the Natural…
Armyworms are notorious pests in the south, especially in the fall, on early cereal pasture or the lush regrowth on Bermuda grass. Rather than spraying a pesticide to winters cereals and pasture each year, we look at alternative methods to help negate these problems. Lee Wayne Stepp from Comanche Oklahoma…
