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: Evolution of Beef Cattle Farming

The Clear Conversations podcast took to the road for a special episode recorded in Nashville during CattleCon, bringing listeners straight into the heart of the cattle industry. Host Tracy Sellers welcomed rancher Steve Wooten of Beatty Canyon Ranch in Colorado for a wide-ranging discussion that blended family history and sustainability, particularly as it relates to the future of beef production.

Sustainability emerged as a central theme of the conversation, a word that Wooten acknowledges can mean very different things depending on who you ask. For him, sustainability starts with the soil. Healthy soil produces healthy grass, which supports efficient cattle capable of producing year after year with minimal external inputs. It’s an approach that equally considers vegetation, animal efficiency, and long-term profitability.

That philosophy aligned naturally with Wooten’s involvement in the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, where he served as a representative for the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association. The roundtable brings together the entire beef supply chain—from producers to retailers—along with universities, NGOs, and allied industries. Its goal is not regulation, Wooten emphasized, but collaboration, shared learning, and continuous improvement.