Corn Belt Cover Crop Selection

Corn Belt Cover Crop Selection

Although cover cropping is certainly not by any means a new farming technique, it had been largely abandoned by the majority of the farming industry for quite some time. Now with the resurgence of conservation agriculture, we are seeing much more attention given to the topic than in previous years. While this is very exciting […]

Eyes in the Sky: Using Remote Sensing to Help Measure Soil Carbon

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In a previous Ag Carbon Knowledge Hub article, entitled “Trust in the Progress,” we described how our third-party vendors physically collect soil samples to monitor soil organic carbon (SOC) stock changes on our grower farm and ranch fields. This article focuses on how we assign individual sampling locations to each field. Since it is not […]

RFD-TV Market Day Report: Interviews A Carbon Farmer

Learn about Indiana farmer, Brian Miller, and his experience with carbon farming and the Agoro Carbon program so far. Brian farms corn, soy, wheat, hay, and cattle. He did his carbon research, selected a program, then his practices (cover cropping, nitrogen optimization), and has been enhancing his soil health practices over the last few years. […]