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: Joe Gardiner operates a mixed farm near Clearwater with his wife Melanie. Joe has been managing soils in a holistic way for the past decade and takes pride in finding new ways to reduce input costs and increase yeilds without additional fertilizers and synetic ammendments.
WELCOME MESSAGE
Joe Gardiner
CONCEPT OF PLANT DIVERSITY
Multi-species blends vs. monocultures
Silage/dry hay best practices
Regrowth for fall grazing
NEW BLENDS FOR 2024 GROWING SEASON
Corn Intercropping w/ Forage Soybeans
Swath Grazing Cover
Salinity Cover
Perennial Hay Cover
COVER CROP FUNDING UPDATE
QUESTION PERIOD