Fall Cover Crop Termination vs. Planting Green on a Clay Soil in Haldimand County

Aug 24, 2021

If you are interested in learning more about planting green into a strip-till corn system, the video below outlines the experience that Matt Beischlag, a farmer based in Haldimand county, Ontario, had in the 2021 season. Matt and his family have a mixed farm of broiler chickens, corn, soybean and wheat cash crops, and red clover seed production.

This past year, he seeded a cover crop mixture after wheat, which included oats, peas, turnip, radish and fall rye. He also tested out a few strips of crimson clover. His goal was to utilize cover crops as a way to minimize some of the soil erosion that they are seeing on the farm. The rye, crimson clover and even the turnip made it through the winter. This video starts in May 27, 2021 and follows the on farm-trial that Matt and Jake Munroe (a soil management specialist with OMAFRA field crops) set up looking at comparing fall cover crop termination to planting green into different species. The 2021 season started off very dry which posed some challenges for corn emergence, as some of the cover crop species drew a significant amount of moisture.

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Video: Learning to Wrench From Dad the Hard Way

Harvest is a week out and the farm picked this week to fall apart. The truck needs a battery, the barn curtain's got a problem, and the corn and beans are telling us we're out of time to get it all fixed.

So it's a full day of wrenching. Tork supervises while I get the truck back running, then we're out at the hog barn where one rusted up part has the whole curtain system hung up. Ladder work, cable work, and a little dad-and-son disagreement about the right way to do it. We close it out walking the fields, shelling beans and checking corn, because whether everything's fixed or not, harvest starts when harvest starts.

Chapters: 00:00 Everything breaks the week before harvest 01:00 Tork supervises while I fix the truck 12:30 Out to the barn to find the curtain problem 14:30 One rusty part hung up the whole curtain 20:00 Running the curtain cable from the ladder 24:00 Walking the beans and corn before harvest 26:30 Wrapping up

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