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The recent dry weather in Indiana has put us at 25-75 percent of normal precipitation over the last 30 days. If we don’t get rain when we need it and where we need it, we’ll need to conserve the water that we do have. That’s the topic on this episode of the HAT Soil Health The post The HAT Soil Health Podcast- Irrigation Efficiency & Soil Moisture appeared first on Hoosier Ag Today.
“Especially small farmers and especially beginning farmers are really having a very robust conversation about how their practices can not only contribute to the food supply, but also to bringing health and resilience to the land.” Liz Brownlee is a farmer in Jennings County and past president of the Hoosier Young Farmers Coalition. She’s The post The HAT Soil Health Podcast: Small Farms, Beginning Farmers, and Conservation appeared first on Hoosier Ag Today.
Tomatoes for processing are a significant part of Indiana’s vegetable acreage. They are typically grown in rotation with field corn, seed corn, and soybeans. What goes into the decision to use cover crops and how do they fit in to the rotation? We answer that question with tomato farmer James Rice from Wanatah, IN and Curt Utterback, Senior Agriculture Coordinator for Red Gold, on this HAT Soil Health Podcast.
In the latest HAT Soil Health Podcast presented by the Conservation Cropping Systems Initiative with additional support from the Indiana Soybean Alliance and the Indiana Corn Marketing Council, host Eric Pfeiffer finishes his discussion with Indiana farmer Ken Rulon and Keith Berns, owner of Green Cover Seed in Nebraska. They discuss how to go about explaining soil health practices to your ag lender and the economic returns of those practices.
In part 2 of this podcast, Rulon says before you explain it to your lender, you first have to believe in it and put together a plan. Hear more from Rulon and Berns by clicking below!