We are a regenerative family farm operating in West Central Indiana. We are no-till cover crop farmers that are transitioning to organic farming at a large scale. We believe in building soil health, farming green, and using diverse crop rotations. We raise cash crops of corn, soybeans, wheat, peas and alfalfa. We also raise cattle and graze them across our fields as part of our regenerative farming practice. I want this channel to show you how regenerative farming can change the agricultural world.
I like. I’ve been studying this and trying to get our stubborn but nice farmer to stop all the darn sprays and do this!!! I will have our way soon. We own the ground.
This is great. I’m trying to get our farmer to do this. My Goodness I grew up in conventional farming without sprays. We need this. No GMOs! Communism is right! But it’s all over!
Dang it, I thought you were back. It just popped up in my feed. You need to come back buddy. I need farming videos that don’t make me want to punch myself in the face.
65lb Cereal Rye, 30 lbs oats, 5 lbs Rape, 3 Lbs Forage Kale, 2 lbs Tillage Raddish planting soybean into that. Have been doing cover crops for two years....first year was cereal rye only at 65lb. Great videos man. I am looking forward to the savings after a few more years of these practices.
You have got it figured out with the rotary hoe. If you can find one of the old drag types. It is a lot simpler to pull it backwards. If you could have pulled one backwards over that crust when the beans were trying to get break through. You would have had an even stand and less clods when you cultivated. A roller will work if you can regulate the pressure to just crack the crust.
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Very Interesting. My farm sits on the equator in East Africa on the bank of the Nile River. I have solar pumps, sprinklers and drip irrigation, so I can apply water whenever needed. I farm with a small walk behind tractor, and create raised beds. With these conditions, could I start by establishing a good stand of alfalfa on a raised bed. Then mow the alfalfa, and then plant corn without tilling. Given I have a year round growing season, and alfalfa is a perineal, I am trying to figure out a continual system where the raised beds have both cover crop and food crop growing at the same time. I would sure appreciate your thoughts.
how did the corn cover crop mix terminate with the roller? specifically the vetch. im in southern IN and had my first bout with vetch a couple weeks ago
Just like planting corn in cover crops, you have to provide a little boost because highly vailable nutrients can be reduced. Most importantly though is having a clean path to sunlight. Corn will become stunted and never recover, permanent hormonal response shift and a different growth pattern. They have to have sun. In population studies Ive got corn going in at 5-7k lower pop where planted into green cover just to help reduce that stress level.
have you used your dawn inrowl much? udpated version shows chopping blades bolted to the blunt chevron blades. we are considering one to use between rows and add on a wider roller between rows to use as our preplant/post plant roll down. just wondering how well the inrowl works. have you experienced any problems with it? also do you have a video of it running?
