Improving soil health through plant diversity

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AGENDA

Are you looking to reduce input costs in 2024? Extend the grazing season? Improve soil health? Use the symbiotic power of plant diversity to help you accomplish these goals.

Speaker Notes: Owen Taylor operates a commercial angus operation with his parents, daughters, & wife Teanna near Mather, Mantioba. Owen has been implementing multi-species cover crops on his operation for almost a decade now & has moved away from synthetics for 5 years.

• WELCOME MESSAGE

  • Owen Taylor - What did I learn on my farm?

• CONCEPT OF PLANT DIVERSITY- Owen Taylor

  • Multi-species blends vs. monocultures

  • Silage/dry hay best practices

  • Regrowth for fall grazing

  • Corn Intercropping w/ Forage Soybeans

  • Swath Grazing Cover

  • Salinity Cover

• PERENNIAL BLEND OPTIONS- Paul Gregory

• COVER CROP FUNDING UPDATE - Watershed Rep

• QUESTION PERIOD

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