Dr. Rick Haney joins the Field Work podcast to discuss the soil health test he developed helped farmers get a true picture of what was going on beneath the surface.
Farmers John and Kara Boyd share the challenges of practicing regenerative ag in Southern Virginia. John leads the National Black Farmers Association and Kara founded the Association of American Indian Farmers.
When Michael Vittetoe started grazing cattle in the prime corn and soybean fields of southeast Iowa, he may have been bucking the trend, but he was also carrying on a family conservation tradition.
At first, switching to no-till was problematic. “We were just committed,” Stout said. “We knew we were going to make it work, so we had to change some things.”
Farmers’ use of conservation practices such as cover crops and no-till varies greatly across the Corn Belt. But in southeast Iowa, there’s a county with a long and widespread tradition of innovation and early adoption.
The new Congress and Administration will have an agenda that differs significantly from the past four years – and just as likely, a different approach to the role of government.
