Episode #74: Dale Strickler
Regenerative Agriculture Podcast
AEA Marketing
4.7 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2021
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Dale Strickler is an agronomist at Green Cover Seed and prominent author primarily focused on soil health. Dale grew up on a family farm outside Colony, KS, and received both his bachelor's and master's degrees in agronomy from Kansas State University. Dale has been an advocate for the use of cover crops for over three decades and continues to experiment, achieving increasingly exciting results.
Dale has published two books, The Drought-Resilient Farm and Managing Pasture. His third book, The Complete Guide to Restoring Your Soil, will be released later this year.
In this episode, Dale and AEA Founder John Kempf discuss:
- Dale's agricultural background and what inspired his fascination with cover crops.
- His experiences with heavy clay soil and implementing a subsurface, drip-irrigated pasture.
- How regenerative practices can affect water-holding capacity of soils and restore small water cycles.
- Dale's most memorable moments in his consulting work with growers across the country.
- Hand cropping, intercropping, and other practices forgotten by mainstream, mechanized agriculture.
- The reason farmers need to be "thinking like a scientist" and the power of self-education.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends, this is John and this is the regenerative agriculture podcast where we talk about the agronomic science and the cultural management practices that regenerate plant health, soil health, and public health. |
| 0:11.0 | My guest for this episode is Dale Strickler from Green Cover Seed and from many other places as well, not just green cover seed, but I think when we look geographically at all the places Dale has been, then it would make for an interesting map. |
| 0:25.6 | So Dale, thank you very much for joining us. I've been really been looking forward to this conversation. |
| 0:31.6 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:32.6 | Yeah, you have lots of experience on cover crops and on regenerating soil and lots of different |
| 0:39.2 | landscapes and ecosystems. |
| 0:41.2 | Can you tell us a little bit about your personal story and kind of the background, the |
| 0:45.7 | context of your work and what you're really passionate and inspired about? |
| 0:51.2 | I grew up on a farm, southeast Kansas. |
| 0:53.7 | I actually recently moved close to where I grew up as a little town named Colony, Kansas. |
| 1:03.0 | Father was basically a sharecropper for a long time and then eventually bought land. |
| 1:09.0 | And so we had hogs and cattle and crops and |
| 1:14.9 | occasionally sheep, ducks, goats, the whole old McDonald thing. |
| 1:21.5 | So we were very diversified and went to school at Kansas State University and got a couple of bachelors there and then a |
| 1:32.0 | master's and then taught agronomy at a community college for 15 years and thoroughly enjoyed that |
| 1:38.5 | experience but found it's hard to raise a family in the manner I'd like to on a teaching salary. |
| 1:46.8 | So I entered private industry. |
| 1:49.8 | I worked for land of lakes, well, agri-alliance, you know, all these different, you know, |
| 1:56.0 | permutations of land of lakes that they had in agronomy at the time. |
| 2:01.6 | I was a great learning experience as well. |
| 2:03.6 | Got to learn, work with a lot of really good people and work for Starseed for a while, |
| 2:10.6 | Vailant USA, and now I'm with Green Cover, which is, I don't know if I could write a job that really fit me better, |
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