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Hi, this is Kelly Gere from Extreme Ag. I'm out here today checking on the cover crops that are coming up from our early harvested soybeans.
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We're very fortunate over the weekend to get an inch of rain, which has really given these crops a good start. We finally got some moisture.
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It's been incredibly dry here for the last two years, just like it has been in other parts of the country. We've got a nice stand coming. Our cover crop mix is two thirds oats,
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one third rye. The oats give us more growth in the fall. The rye, of course, comes back in the spring.
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I'll be happy to move the cattle in here in a couple weeks. The cover crops should be big enough then to provide some nice fall forage.
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The cattle, of course, are provide a carbon transfer, is what I call it. Carbon is not created nor destroyed by the cattle.
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It just speeds up the process, getting those nutrients back in the soil faster. I feel like the cover crops are kind of an earthworm effect. You know, they,
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they talk about earthworms going down and turning the soil over. That's what the cover crops do with the nutrients in our soil.
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They turn that nutrition over the roots, bring it up, put it into the plant. The plant dies,
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lays on tops of the ground and creates that circular process continually turning that nutrition over, helping provide available nutrition for our other crops,
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soybeans and corn. I'm happy to work with TER and my cover crop systems because they've got programs that pay farmers to put the cover crops in,
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pay farmers for the no-till. Different soil health initiatives and programs coming all the time that are good for agriculture. Um, really happy to be working with Tru Tera.