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Hey guys, this is Temple from a Stream Ag. Um, let, let's talk about cover crops for just a minute. So this field was planted in cover crops,
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uh, back in the fall. And right after we took the corn off, you know, we, we planted our cover crop
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and we tried to kind of vertical till the, the, the cover crop in with it. And we get kind of a good stand,
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but some years we don't get a very good stand. This year we didn't get a very good stand. As you can see out here behind me, it's mostly stover.
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We turned some cows on some cover crop areas. The problem was this year is that it was dry and we didn't get much of a stand.
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So it kind of put us way behind. Um, we had a lot of acres that didn't, no cover crop came up at all.
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Well, talking to, uh, Kelly Garrett with these guys from bio till, what we're finding out is, is maybe we can go in a little earlier in the season
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and maybe we can spread it on, let's say if the corn is like, you know, V eight or so, V seven V eight, and we can go out there
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and we can have a multitude of different, um, angles to look at this. You know, it's more of a diverse cover crop program
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than what we have here. So what we have here is just clover and a little bit of, uh, cereal grain here,
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but we didn't get much of a stand. But if we could have put it in back when corn was V eight, V seven, even V six-ish,
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we could have actually had a better cover the entire year. So, you know, maybe that's some of the reasons
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that we're not getting the amount of organic matter and we're not really changing our CECs, we're cover crops out here in my soil types
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because of that problem. Well, we're gonna change some things next year. Next year we're gonna be looking
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at a whole different program. We're gonna be looking at putting it in a little bit earlier, trying to get vegetation out here, trying
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to get a massive root system established, trying to help the one crop and then try to help us over the winter as well.
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We're gonna keep up with this all year long. 00:01:44.915 --> 00:01:45.795
