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Soil moistures heading into winter

First off today we continue our interview with Ralph Wright, head of agro-meteorology with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, about soil moisture reserves heading into winter. Yesterday, Wright talked about the start of the growing season, and three major frosts that came in August and September. Then, says Wright, it was the early snow.


Interview with Ralph Wright (3:42 minutes) (1.69 Mb)

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Source : Alberta agriculture and forestry

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We cover: today I am so excited to share this conversation with my buddy Eric Nordell of Beech Grove Farm in Pennsylvania to chat about, well, a lot of things. Eric and his wife Anne have run beech grove farm since 1983 and they do things a little differently (like farming with horses) but they dry farm which we discuss, they use some cover crops in the paths in interesting ways (also discussed) and in fact, we get into a whole digression about their deer fencing that you’re gonna wanna hear.