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The heat from the more open ground pushed the corn harder. The shorter corn will catch up

We started farming in 2010, been strip tilling and cover cropping with no till wheat in the mix, every year our soils improve compared to some neighbors. Thanks for sharing.

What starters have you tried and what product did you like best?

WE ARE IN HEAVY CLAY VERY FERTILE I WOULD LOVE TO TALK TO MATT

Advice on where to start. Just took possession of, roughly, 40 acres of 'black soil' (clay) that has been overgrazed by an absentee owner who applied urea. Got a quote from a local to rip the soil, disc, and seed -- $12,000! Should we 'scratch and seed' with a multi-species cover crop and just see what happens? Thanks for all replies.

What are you useing for fertilizer since you cut out salt based

What drone was used and did you identify the issue with the spreader?

I have been wondering if anyone has started using drones to air-seed. Be interested to see a video on equipment and methods for drone seeding. How it compares to airplane for cost, risk and efficacy.

I enjoy watching cereal rye come up in the fall. Been listening to Farmer Rick Clark trials of cover cropping Replacing chemical herbicides with planting green and crimping. I am in the Southeast and see so many fields sitting dormant over winter, easily flooded and more eroded by next spring. Gona play around with it.

Matt do you have to use fertilizer?

Than you for sharing this! You are living proof about the power of regenerative agriculture. Patience pays off for both you and the planet!

Just an update corn yield was 184 bpa. I've never grown over 130 bpa corn on this field before. This is a successful year even though it was so dry

Looks very good, what did you do to make this change?

The very best starter of any starter fert is fish emulsion. You will have the fastest best stand of corn you have ever seen.

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"Heavy clay" is vague. What's the percentages of sand, silt, and clay? I've seen a lot of people call clay loam, "heavy clay" because they've never seen actual heavy clay soil.

Good information..thanks

Hah I was thinking "wow that clay looks exactly like the crap I have in my yard that I'm trying to fix". Turns out it probably IS exactly the same type of clay. I'm not far away in Fort Wayne. Hey neighbor lol

Thank you so much for everything you do!

Excellent and honorable idea to get back to working hard earned land kept in a family hands... best of luck with crops, selling to vendors, restaurants and the community at large. I had 5acres in Sacramento Ca. Until a few years ago so I get it...

You're correct , I've noticed this on wet spots in my fields in only 5 years of 100% notill n cover crops

Excellent. Thanks for sharing and well done.

If you use gipsum and brand lime ,you have those result,s in 2or 3 years

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Thank you so much for this very factual, non emotional account. As you said in the video, "If I can do this on poor soil, you can do it on better soil." Thank you and keep up the good work! Luke

Is this a joke?? You're not serious are you?

Thanks for the good advice! God Bless u 2!!

I wish more farmers would grow real food

It’s a good thing you showed the pictures so fast I was almost able to see them

Another great story. Regenerative Ag makes more $$$ MON-NEY. The old schoolers who continue to write checks for equipment and repairs excess fuel for multiple trips over the soil fertilizer pesticides fungicides while the Regen folks CASH CHECKS the tillage crowd Will hopefully open their eyes and ears and become good stewards of the land

From Australia; and entire district is heavy alluvial silty clay. The entire district has embraced no till, direct drill with full trash retention. Yields have at least doubled in my lifetime. One farmer has embraced regenerative farming with cover crops and low inputs; the whole kit. His crops are best described as pathetic; five generations of hard work look like ending in the foreseeable future. Moisture is king. Why would you go against all the science in our dry climate and plant summer active weeds and call them cover crops. Regenerative agriculture assumes every generation got it wrong and that is far from factual.

My one good idea is incorporating Johnson su compost to cover crops grazing pastures on any farmland to get to the beneficial microbes and fungi back into the ecosystem to help build up living thriving top soils

I live in Allen Co. our neighboring farms started no-till, but they let all of the fodder blow into my pond knee deep. It's all over my property. This year they did it on the day where we were getting 60mph winds which was forecasted. They don't do the cover crops. All of their fodder goes into other people's property and eventually into the water.

Soil conditions knowledge is good, but how about some information on crop yields from this field?

Man, that sounds great! Praying for you guys!

Bring in a few thousand worms and let them loose. I guarantee you'll be amazed at the difference in a few short years.

cool story bro, i no till my lawn every year for 35 years now, there has been no improvement and infact major cover loss despite adding fertilizers that counter the clay and add nutrients 3 times a year. if i just go straight nitrogen with my customers lawns and pre emergents they have luscious thick dark green lawns in less than 1 month.

I hope people are listening.

Do you worry about or have you noticed any unwanted soil compaction because you no longer till? You said it's heavy clay so I would imagine after driving the heavy farm equipment in the same spots year after year you would have tracks hard as concrete in them rows? Or how does that work?

You should swap ideas with One Lonely Farmer. He is also working on regenerative farming.

That was great, well done on taking another path and thanks for posting this. You were dead right going away from the salt based fertilisers, they burn the soil and kill the 2orms and microbes, it is the microbes that make the soil and earthworms happy. As a matter of interest if you do want to use some salt based fertilisers you can buffer their 3ffect on the soil by using black strap molasses in the spray, works a treat and stops the burn. Have you read any of Carey Reams books? He was very much into this sort of thing, Dr Dan Skow was one of his desciples among others, make sure you have at least 2,000 lbs per acre of calcium to ensure you have good healthy crops. Carbon is you friend if you can increase that in the soil its great, 1lb of carbon holds 5lbs of water so great for dry soil areas, helps to feed the microbes that bind the soil too. I read all his and others books on this type of farming and improved the soil on our vineyard just like you did, earthworms came back and when you walked on the ground it felt springy or alove underfoot. The farmer that bought it when we sold said he had never encountered soil like that before. Go well and spread the word.

Impressive! I heard Mustard plants are good for cover crops.

It is a great blessing to hear your story and your great attitude. God bless you too.

Well done. Can you graze covers on that field in winter? That would triple humus in the soil and help with bogging down in wet clay. While I lived in Ohio (a ways south of you) we weren't farming. Now, I'm home in Arizona. Our area is like Gabe Brown's N. Dakota place in his summer. No rain for weeks and months and then inches at a time. But, good adobe clay fortified with plenty of humus takes every drop.

What are your covers and how did no till affect "normal" yield?

Well done. I'm so happy to hear regenerative/no-till works on larger acreage. We know it works on our small holding, where the topsoil has washed away down to clay. We have seen topsoil build here of 8 inches on the areas we started on six years ago. God bless you. Keep going!

well done amigo

Thankyou mate!