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Cover Crops Part 1: What Newbies Should Consider

Field Work

Field Work

Society & Culture, Documentary

5.0652 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

There are a lot of big questions to consider for farmers interested in trying out cover crops. Perhaps the most important one, according to cover crop coach Steve Groff, is this: what do you want to accomplish? Zach and Mitchell talk with Steve about the benefits of cover crops, the roadblocks to their adoption, and why he thinks farmers need cover crop mentors.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Zach here, and I wanted to let you guys know that field work is brought to you in part by General Mills.

0:08.0

General Mills is partnering with farmers and suppliers to advance regenerative egg practices on a million acres of farmland by 2030. Hey everybody.

0:27.6

Welcome back to another episode of the Field Work podcast.

0:30.6

I'm Zach Johnson.

0:31.6

And with me as always is Mitchell Hora back in the Field Work work world headquarters up in the Twin Cities.

0:38.7

Happy to be here today talking about cover crops.

0:41.7

This is going to be the first episode in a series that we're going to do,

0:44.9

kind of a mini-series, about cover crops.

0:47.0

We're jumping straight into mini-series now.

0:49.8

We've, like, escalated to a whole other level already.

0:52.8

I'm going to just bring it all back around to the helicopter ratio.

0:55.8

This is huge.

0:56.7

This is a big deal.

0:58.4

We're progressing.

0:59.1

We're progressing the Fiddler podcast through way faster than anyone ever thought we would.

1:04.3

Yeah, nobody's ever seen anything like this before.

1:06.9

Cover Crops have been a really, I think, interesting topic throughout agriculture on their impact

1:12.4

not only to stop erosion and cleaning up the water, but holding nutrients, there's a lot to

1:17.8

learn about them. Yeah. I mean, even as a farmer for me who's never been able to personally

1:22.6

make cover crops work, cover crops are interesting. I want to make them work. I've got a ton of different ideas that I would love to make work using cover crops. make them work i've got a ton of different ideas that i would

1:28.6

love to make work using cover crops so far we've had nothing but but failures that have come from that

1:34.2

but there's a lot of opportunities out there and i think the the challenge is just figuring out exactly

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