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How to Move Away from a Full Tillage Summer Fallow Small Grain System

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How to Soil Health
Dan Lakey, Brett Torgensen, and Cameron Williams are all small grain farmers who have replaced more conventional practices with those of a soil health management system.
Soil Health

How to Add Diversity to Your System Despite Limited Markets

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How to Soil Health
Soda Springs, Idaho, is a tough place for crop diversity. Traditionally, the rotation is small grain and summer/chem fallow. Dan talked to us about the challenge of building diversity on his farm. While finding a market for new cash crops.
Soil Health

How to Innovate with Intercropping

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How to Soil Health
Brett and Dan discuss intercropping, including flax and chickpeas, flax and peas, and malt barely and peas. Hear their insights and experiences in intercropping, some practical tips, and why they were happy with the results.
Soil Health

How to take a Dirt Vacation!

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How to Soil Health
One of the things that we often allude to but are not explicit about when we discuss soil health is quality of life. Brandon Allen, a farmer in Lewiston, in Utah’s Cache Valley, stopped tilling several years ago.
Soil Health

First Time Cover Croppers

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Cover 5
Bryant and Margaret Harrison of Greenville County, SC first used cover crops hoping to control erosion... but they couldn't ignore the other benefits that came with it.
Soil Health

The Power of Cover Crops & Diversity

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Cover 5
For those still farming conventionally, this bold approach would appear to be destined for failure. But two of our farmers, Bryant and Margaret Harrison of Greenville County, are experiencing just what we had in mind.
Cover Crops

Weed Management & Reducing Erosion

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Cover 5
Cover crops not only help build up organic matter in the soil, they also help with reducing weeds and increasing water infiltration!
Cover Crops

Rye into Non-GMO Corn

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Cover 5
This initiative, which began last year, aims to enhance soil quality that has been left idle for some time. Bryant plans to experiment with different planting techniques, including using a coulter packer and a conventional grain drill.
Cover Crops

Cover Crops and Equipment

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Cover 5
It's often thought that to add cover crops to an operation, a farmer needs fancy new equipment. In this video, Bryant Harrison shows us that that doesn't have to be the case!
Cover Crops

Cover Crops and Soil Moisture

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Cover 5
Brian discusses the benefits of using cover crops in agriculture. He appreciates how cover crops maintain more consistent soil moisture levels, reducing the need to frequently combat weather elements and moisture evaporation from the soil.
Cover Crops

Cover Crops Gaining Popularity

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Cover 5
"I've seen a lot more cover crops in the area than I've ever seen." Cover crops are a tool many farmers are turning to for it's laundry list of benefits.
Cover Crops

First Time Cover Crop Experience

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Cover 5
Restoring the land with cover crops one farm at a time!
Cover Crops

Restoring the Soil through Cover Crops

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Cover 5
we asked each farmer involved to show us their worst performing plot of land. What better way to display the power of soil health than through taking land no one wants and transforming it into land that consistently out-produces the rest?
Cover Crops

Using Cover Crops for Grazing

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Cover 5
Don discusses using cover crops for grazing, adjusting strategies to support soil health and forage, emphasizing a shift towards organic practices and native plantings for sustainable land use.
Cover Crops

Conventional to Regenerative Agriculture

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Cover 5
Nat Bradford is an heirloom vegetable farmer in Sumter County. Recently, Nat has transitioned to a more organic style of agriculture and talks with us about the effects thus far and his vision for the future.
Cover Crops

Resiliency to Mother Nature

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Cover 5
Utilizing cover crops and diversity isn't just great for building soil health, it also serves to create a more resilient soil that can stand up against extreme weather conditions.
Cover Crops

Regenerative Soils through Cover Crops

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Cover 5
Hear what Ruper Burrows, producer out of Williamsburg County, South Carolina found and how his cover crops are not only growing, but improving soil health along the way!
Cover Crops

Changing Soils with Cover Crops

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Cover 5
Hear S.C. farmer Rupert Burrows talk about his experience with cover crops and how he's seen them increase soil infiltration moisture and stabilize soil temperature.
Cover Crops

Natural Weed Suppression with Cover Crops

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Cover 5
‘[Outside of the plot] you can see quite a few weeds, but inside [with the cover crops] if we were to peel it back, you would see that we don’t have any weed pressure.’ Cover crops: Nature’s way of suppressing weeds and building healthy soils.
Cover Crops

Transforming Depleted Soils Nature's Way

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Cover 5
'When I inherited the land it was very nutrient depleted and didn't have much biodiversity... cover crops, keeping continuous roots in the soil and [keeping the ground covered] has greatly amended and increased the organic matter in my soil.'
Cover Crops

Cover Crops and Wildlife Pressure

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Cover 5
Some of our farmers in South Carolina have voiced frustration over an increase in wildlife pressure after incorporating cover crops. We sat down with Will Metts of Metts Organix to hear first hand about this experience and what to expect.
Cover Crops
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