Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
A tour to provide farmers, agronomists and other interested parties a look at cover crops, interseeding and intercropping is being held on Tuesday, July 23. Other topics include soil health, carbon storage, and
regenerative agriculture.
The tour begins at 8:30 a.m. and will leave from Farm Credit Services in Rugby. The day will start with soil health demonstrations on wind and water erosion. Other demonstrations on soil stability, water infiltration and soil penetration will be held throughout the day.
Morning stops on the tour include a visit to the Brian Paul farm southwest of Rugby to view cover crop plots planted by Pulse USA. These include single species plots and variety mixes.
There will also be a discussion on using cover crops to manage saline soils. Afternoon stops are in rural Wolford at the Paul Overby farm to look at cover crops that are interseeded into oats and spring wheat. The goal of this practice is
to have cover crops already growing in the crop prior to harvest.
The second stop is at the Nathan Neameyer farm in rural Mylo. Tour participants will have the chance to see cover crops interseeded into sunflowers, as well as soybeans seeded into a field harvested with a stripper header and planted with rye last fall. Another stop will discuss planting two commodity crops at the same time, such as flax and faba beans, called intercropping.
Tour participants will also hear Natalie Larson from Indigo Ag present on a new carbon credit program the company is starting. Indigo Ag is a relatively new company involved in seed treatments and identity preserved crops, including
verification of “sustainably raised” to meet consumer demand.
The tour is free to farmers, but they are asked to RSVP by calling the Pierce County NDSU Extension office at (701) 776-6234. The tour is presented by the Northern Plains Resource Conservation and Development Council’s “How Far North Can We Grow” Cover Crop Project with sponsorship from Indigo Ag, Merchants Bank, Pulse USA, and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.
