Global CA-CoP CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF
for sustainable agriculture, land use and ecosystem management
Amir Kassam
Moderator
Global CA-CoP
URL: http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture
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Hello Amir,
If you’ve spent any time at all researching cover crops online, you’ve probably come across the famous picture of Dave Brandt holding a gigantic tillage radish.
Brandt laughs about the photo, but for this meme-worthy no-tiller from Carroll, Ohio, that massive taproot only hints at the amazing benefits he’s seen from the cover crops he’s been growing since 1976.
For this week’s podcast episode, sponsored by La Crosse Seed, contributing editor Martha Mintz chats with Dave about some of those benefits as well as the lessons he’s learned in his 45 years of using cover crops.
Dave talks about how and why he went from using a single species cover crop to a multi-species mix, some of the unusual methods he’s used for measuring nutrient payback from covers, how they’ve helped him reduce fertilizer inputs by 80%, herbicides by 45-50% and fuel by 10-15%, the equipment he uses to plant green into 36,000 pounds of cover crop biomass, and much more.
Listen to the FREE episode here >>
Thanks for listening,
Julia Gerlach
Executive Editor, Cover Crop Strategies
16655 W. Wisconsin Ave, Brookfield, WI 53005
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