Profitability through soil health

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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

  • Economics of soil nutrients

  • 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

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