Farmers that attended the Horse Creek Watershed Council’s No Till Workshop learned about: equipment council members are using on their own farms; fertility, do’s and don’ts, economics, weed control and equipment options; improved soil resiliency from No Till and cover crops demonstrated by a rainfall simulator test. On June 13, 2017 the Horse Creek Watershed […]
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This week has been pretty exciting in the watersheds — we seeded two of our cover crop/tillage test-plot locations with cover crop seed into standing corn. It went really well! This far north, we need to give the cover crops as much time as possible to germinate and establish before things start freezing, so planting […]
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We have been working hard to establish and analyze three on-farm cover crop and tillage test plots in the watersheds, made possible in part by a grant from SARE, the Sustainable Agriculture, Research and Education program at USDA. We have randomized, replicated trials of cover vs no-cover, and tilled vs no-till plots on three farms […]
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