I’m glad you did a video on it cause I ant got no one to teach me I’m learning from u I’m 24 and you taught me a lot more than I would imagine and I thank you Matt !!!
Hi I am a crop and livestock farmer from Ontario Canada Just subscribed Love the way you guys do the videos linking each person to the job your doing 👍 And the intro is awesome 👍👍
Enjoyed Matt. My daddy was no-til farmer when everyone made fun of what he did. You no the * no-til no yield guys* , but what he started in the late 80s I'm reaping the benefits of today. Now I don't do enough but what your doing I guarantee he'd wanta talk to you if he was still here but I appreciate the video. Thanks Matt. God bless.
Matt, thanks for the video. The subject matter hits home with me. I worked for NRCS for almost 40 years and I retired as the State Soil Scientist and the Snow Survey Program Manager in Idaho. (Obviously Snow Survey is not an issue in West Tennessee.) Soil Health is a very important part of farming. A healthy soil will produce good crops for many years. I am fascinated by what is happening to the Fragipan layer in the your soil. Here in Idaho those layers dry out in the summer and become extremely hard and brittle. To see some break up in that layer is very encouraging. Also, thank you for letting the NRCS conduct the training on your farm. This kind of training works best when you are in the field and not in a classroom watching Power Point presentations.
Regenerating soil back to good health is a sloooowww process, especially without the help of livestock....I started cover crops about 10 yrs ago for wind protection for my cotton crop on sandy soils and the CC improved that resource considerably. That being said, I've seen a little improvement but it's like your soil, it's still has a long ways to go. I'm committed to the process and you have a huge age advantage over me. So keep up the work and when your my age 61, you will see a big change......good luck with your journey.....
And that’s the big problem with regenerative ag, the time it takes to work. With the average age of the American farmer being around 62 years old, most farmers would not be able to see a return on investment in their lifetime. Really hard to convince others to adopt it when that’s the case
Great video! It reinforces a few things for me. I was out in the garden this early morning weeding -- weedier areas had a lot of dew with damp soil while the bare areas were dry. Which had me thinking and researching all day about dew harvesting. Green cover crops and good winter cover residue generate cooler ground temperatures creating best conditions for dew accumulation. We have enough humidity here in MI that dew on the lawn can tell you no rain that day (maybe do some haying) or if no dew then rain is likely -- the potential is moisture nearly every day, unless there is no cover crop / residue to harvest that dew. I have radishes in some of my corn (low and close with more dew) and pumpkins/squash in other areas getting ready to spread vines, so some testing. We used pumpkins in the corn when I was in high school (pumpkins that paid the first two years of college a career ago) so I'm expecting improvements there.
The cover crops also keep soil temps a lot cooler which allow plants roots to be much more efficient in times of stress. Bare soil can easily get over 100 degrees during the summer while shaded soil will typically remain below 90 degrees.
I love soil health stuff. Great video. What size is pipe used for infiltration test and how deep does it need to be in the soil? Have you tried a soil rest year with just cover crops? What verity rye grass do you use or does it matter?
It’s a 6” pipe driven into the ground about 3”. I just use a VNS annual ryegrass from Co-Op. the cereal rye I believe is Elbon. No, I can’t afford the lost income by planting 2 cover crops in one year as over 80% of our land is rented
I guess I like the technical stuff, but the real question for me is....what happens during a hard drought year? Or a super wet early spring? Those two corner cases hit my crops the hardest. Asking after 4.5 inches rain through tassle this year, and that's all for the season, we're at dent now. Water holding capacity etc.
No matter what your practices, weather extremes are going to be hard on the crop. On these specific plots a company volunteered to install water moisture sensors in the soil one year that I grew corn on it. The cover crop plots showed twice the moisture availability at the end of the growing season than the No till plot did
@@griggsfarmsllc Thanks. I'm thinking the 7 years no-till is a good stepping off point to try covers next season, especially to get the N that I applied this season in a 1/2 yield year. The no till still seems to be 40% better at handling the drought than conventional. Here goes.
Awesome video showcasing some of what we do at NRCS!
I’m glad you did a video on it cause I ant got no one to teach me I’m learning from u I’m 24 and you taught me a lot more than I would imagine and I thank you Matt !!!
Really glad to hear it, that’s the goal of our channel, to help teach others
Pleasantly surprised to see the amount of ladies involved.
Hi
I am a crop and livestock farmer from Ontario Canada
Just subscribed
Love the way you guys do the videos linking each person to the job your doing 👍
And the intro is awesome 👍👍
Welcome aboard!
Enjoyed Matt. My daddy was no-til farmer when everyone made fun of what he did. You no the * no-til no yield guys* , but what he started in the late 80s I'm reaping the benefits of today. Now I don't do enough but what your doing I guarantee he'd wanta talk to you if he was still here but I appreciate the video. Thanks Matt. God bless.
Very interesting video good to see you again
Matt, thanks for the video. The subject matter hits home with me. I worked for NRCS for almost 40 years and I retired as the State Soil Scientist and the Snow Survey Program Manager in Idaho. (Obviously Snow Survey is not an issue in West Tennessee.) Soil Health is a very important part of farming. A healthy soil will produce good crops for many years. I am fascinated by what is happening to the Fragipan layer in the your soil. Here in Idaho those layers dry out in the summer and become extremely hard and brittle. To see some break up in that layer is very encouraging. Also, thank you for letting the NRCS conduct the training on your farm. This kind of training works best when you are in the field and not in a classroom watching Power Point presentations.
Matt this is one video that I will have to study many times and I will Thanks.
One of the best videos you’ve done so far!
Enjoyed the video. We need more videos like this 👍🏽
Regenerating soil back to good health is a sloooowww process, especially without the help of livestock....I started cover crops about 10 yrs ago for wind protection for my cotton crop on sandy soils and the CC improved that resource considerably. That being said, I've seen a little improvement but it's like your soil, it's still has a long ways to go. I'm committed to the process and you have a huge age advantage over me. So keep up the work and when your my age 61, you will see a big change......good luck with your journey.....
And that’s the big problem with regenerative ag, the time it takes to work. With the average age of the American farmer being around 62 years old, most farmers would not be able to see a return on investment in their lifetime. Really hard to convince others to adopt it when that’s the case
Great video! It reinforces a few things for me.
I was out in the garden this early morning weeding -- weedier areas had a lot of dew with damp soil while the bare areas were dry. Which had me thinking and researching all day about dew harvesting. Green cover crops and good winter cover residue generate cooler ground temperatures creating best conditions for dew accumulation. We have enough humidity here in MI that dew on the lawn can tell you no rain that day (maybe do some haying) or if no dew then rain is likely -- the potential is moisture nearly every day, unless there is no cover crop / residue to harvest that dew. I have radishes in some of my corn (low and close with more dew) and pumpkins/squash in other areas getting ready to spread vines, so some testing. We used pumpkins in the corn when I was in high school (pumpkins that paid the first two years of college a career ago) so I'm expecting improvements there.
The cover crops also keep soil temps a lot cooler which allow plants roots to be much more efficient in times of stress. Bare soil can easily get over 100 degrees during the summer while shaded soil will typically remain below 90 degrees.
did they determine how the use of manure is effecting soil health?
I enjoy your biological side farming and how did your wheat crop turn out 🚜
Wheat was about average
I love soil health stuff. Great video.
What size is pipe used for infiltration test and how deep does it need to be in the soil?
Have you tried a soil rest year with just cover crops?
What verity rye grass do you use or does it matter?
It’s a 6” pipe driven into the ground about 3”.
I just use a VNS annual ryegrass from Co-Op. the cereal rye I believe is Elbon.
No, I can’t afford the lost income by planting 2 cover crops in one year as over 80% of our land is rented
@@griggsfarmsllc O got get me a piece of pipe. I want to do some infiltration test myself.
I forgot to ask how much water do you use?
@@familyfarmertn8931 I don’t remember. It was mentioned in the video
@@griggsfarmsllc I planned on watching it again anyway. Thanks
I guess I like the technical stuff, but the real question for me is....what happens during a hard drought year? Or a super wet early spring? Those two corner cases hit my crops the hardest. Asking after 4.5 inches rain through tassle this year, and that's all for the season, we're at dent now. Water holding capacity etc.
No matter what your practices, weather extremes are going to be hard on the crop.
On these specific plots a company volunteered to install water moisture sensors in the soil one year that I grew corn on it. The cover crop plots showed twice the moisture availability at the end of the growing season than the No till plot did
@@griggsfarmsllc Thanks. I'm thinking the 7 years no-till is a good stepping off point to try covers next season, especially to get the N that I applied this season in a 1/2 yield year. The no till still seems to be 40% better at handling the drought than conventional. Here goes.
So are they college students or are they working with a research firm or something else.
They are all employees of the NRCS conducting training on testing soil health