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David Kruger

I have been trying to figure out how well it would work to plant forage peas in 30 inch corn. Thinking it help increase crude protein in the silage. Any suggestions?

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David Kruger

What are reasons people are not trying soil health practices in your area?? Looking for topics that could be presented at summer meetings and conferences.

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Van Mansheim

Here is a question I received from a producer from North Dakota. Does anyone have any experience with winter grazing pinto beans crop residue? And getting a cover crop established? "Question for you. I’ll need to talk to you about grazing pinto beans after harvest. Anything spoken about getting a cover in there before harvesting. our growing season is short up here."

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Lealand Schoon

Dense clay P Dog town: what Cover Crop species can grow in a Dense Clay soil? We hope to renovate a former P Dog town and win back soil organic matter, soil life and vegetative biomass.

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Jesse Devine

I just listened to Van on the Roots and Ruminants podcast. Great job. I encourage everyone to give it a listen. Like Van, I need to put more effort into our pastures to get the natives to come back. Most of our soil health efforts have been on our crop ground acres, and we’re missing an opportunity there. See you next week in Rapid.

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David Kruger

5 principles of soil health 1. Soil Cover 2. Limit Disturbance 4. Living roots 3. Diversity 5. Integrating Livestock On your farm what order would you place these in order of soil health and would it be the same for ROI?

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Candice Mizera

cattle grazing volunteer rye and stripper header stubble through ice, haven't fed a bale yet this winter. they do have fresh water, salt and riomax tubs available. they are hitting the salt hard but not the tubs, telling us they are getting enough nutrients from grazing. looking nice and full and good condition heading into the cold snap. we are going to put out some rye hay bales on end for wind protection and bale grazing for this weeks cold snap as a precaution so they have plenty to stay full and warm

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David Kruger

Becks 27 year corn after soybeans tillage study.

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David Kruger

This product that is applied to the seed as a talc has shown some pretty good results on tilled ground. Those of you who have some knowledge of biologicals, do you think there is anything that could be harmful to soil microbes if I try it on a long term no-till field. If I try it will be in a split planter application so I can see if there is any ROI. I am very skeptical of these products but have seen some data from what I feel is replicable source that has shown positive results.

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Patrick Toomey

for folks that feed their own grain or forage, how do you calculate your return on those crop acres?

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