Cover Crops Part 3: Can They Work Up North?

Field Work

Society & Culture, Documentary

5.0 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Field Work host Zach Johnson has tried planting cover crops a few times on his heavy clay soils in Central Minnesota, but has had nothing but failures. In this episode, Ken Franzky, an agronomist with Centrol Crop Consulting, gives Zach some insights into how to try again. Ken tells Zach and Mitchell that his recs on aerial applications, herbicide rotations, and seed mixes vary a lot by geography. “I haven't seen a cover crop system that's a one size fits all approach,” he says.

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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.
0:23.6	FOOH SAQ back in from another day of field working.
0:31.6	Just kidding, we're actually in the studio with Bendy's microphones and everything for us.
0:35.6	Talking about field work though on the podcast. Thanks everybody for coming back and joining us. Talking about field work, though, on the podcast.
0:38.7	Thanks everybody for coming back and joining us.
0:40.4	My name is Mitchell Hora.
0:41.6	I'm Zach Johnson, and he has the full opportunity here to really sort of verbally abuse me,
0:47.2	but he did not take that.
0:48.3	I'm such a nice guy.
0:49.2	Yeah, he just went with a regular show intro.
0:51.4	Yeah, but that's okay.
0:52.6	We're trying to mix it up here a little bit and keep the
0:54.6	podcast interesting. We appreciate all your feedback here so far, and, but today we're going to
0:59.9	keep on talking about some cover crops. This is a huge topic, so excited to just be able to kind of
1:05.3	keep this conversation flowing here today. What do you think about that, Zach? I think that'll be
1:10.1	fun. So today we're going to bring in
1:11.4	another guest via Skype. We're going to bring in Ken Francky. Just a full disclosure here,
1:16.4	Ken does work for central crop consulting, which is the company that we actually hire on our farm to do
1:21.4	some consulting for us. And so part of the reason I'm really interested to talk with Ken today is to
1:26.2	kind of get his take on cover crops being as far north as I am and working with people with my types of soils.
1:32.0	I'm interested to hear his take on cover crops and how people have been able to utilize them in my region.
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