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[Podcast] Building Soil Health and Profitability with Strip-Till

In this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Sound Agriculture, we caught up with Rock Creek Minn. farmer Jon Stevens talks about how integrating strip-till is helping him build organic matter and boost production on clay soils with relatively low county yield averages. He also talks about diversifying his operation with cattle, building his own strip-till rig, controlling weeds with cover crops and more.
In this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Sound Agriculture, we caught up with Rock Creek Minn. farmer Jon Stevens talks about how integrating strip-till is helping him build organic matter and boost production on clay soils with relatively low county yield averages. He also talks about diversifying his operation with cattle, building his own strip-till rig, controlling weeds with cover crops and more.
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Building an Advanced Eco-System with Strip-Till, Cover Crops

Managing an 11,000-acre operation, Kentucky grower Brandon Hunt has created a robust strip-till system with cover crops, but figuring out the details of seeding populations, timing and how wide to make rows of covers was challenging.
In the 2020 cover crop benchmark study conducted by Strip-Till Farmer sister publication, Cover Crop Strategies, the data found that 42% of growers have only used cover crops for 5 years. Brandon Hunt, Herndon, Ky., is one of those newer cover crop adopters.
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