Rick Clark is a hero thumbing his nose to big fuel, big synthetic chemical, big GMO and all others who believe a farm should be ran like a dictatorship! He plays nice with mother nature building soil not crushing on dirt and for that I applaud him! We need more farmers like him!
There is a video on lance klessigs channel with this guy speaking at a seminar that is really good. He goes into great detail about there crop rotations and types of cover crops and how they manage them and how they effect yield and cost. I think video title is something like economics of regenerative agriculture ?
Awesome. I got started w cover crops 4 years ago and sadly it’s been so wet at harvest past two years and made it where we couldn’t get cover crops planted and have had to till all acres. Sucks, but hopefully this will be the year we get back on track. I’m in the southeast and we desperately need that ground cover to conserve moisture during our crazy hot summer. This year has started off great. Corn just got planted a few weeks ago, and should be been waist high by now, but again rain rain rain. Our produce looks amazing and honestly couldn’t ask for a better start on vegetables 🍅. We don’t farm but 800 acres, row crops and ab 50 acres of produce, but sadly the 50 acres of produce is what always makes a profit. All we’ve done is lose on soybeans past few years. Going to grow grain sorghum for first time this year. Got some new farms that’s been nothing but soybeans for past 20 years, I’m dead serious. Got to have a rotation and plan was corn, but no way I can plant that much corn w market as bad as it is. Praying the markets bounce back good. All of us farmers need a great year and I pray every one of you has a super blessed profitable year 🙏
A&R Farms keep working on changing that up! What about downsizing away from some of the least profitable acres so you can focus on growing the profitable produce acres? - Mitchell
OH YEAH! Keep up the EX work guys, you're inspiring.. Organic regenerative farming IS the way to go now, with ruthless herbicides/pesticides (like glyphosate) harming all life -- including humans! -- & damaging our immune systems.. THIS is the better way, to future health & prosperity🌲
Adam Trost glyphosate is an herbicide, used to kill weeds, pesticides kill bugs. And if you think glyphosate harms everything well so does soap and bleach so should be stop using them?
@@zeusmacafee5097 Insecticides kill bugs. Pesticides is an all encompassing word that includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides. If you don't believe me just google it.
Rick spoke at a conference in Wisconsin this winter and here are my notes: • 100 lbs or more of cereal rye planted in the fall--need this much to get enough density to serve as mulch for weed control • Planted beans at boot stage of the rye at the end of April ○ Beans need a longer growing season than previously thought. So beans are planted before corn. ○ It is about 45 days until anthesis of the rye, when it is best to crimp them. Lignin is at it's highest point, so plant is most vulnerable to snap, and kill. Don't want the beans to be beyond V2 stage of growth when crimping the rye.
Can you fill me in a bit more how the diversity improves the PH? Give me some low level science on that. I am cover cropping my hunting farm food plots. Rotating spring and fall with different blends. Same theory as Ag but more for deer! I am down to almost zero herbicides, only 100# of fertilizer last year.
Rick Clark is a hero thumbing his nose to big fuel, big synthetic chemical, big GMO and all others who believe a farm should be ran like a dictatorship! He plays nice with mother nature building soil not crushing on dirt and for that I applaud him! We need more farmers like him!
Regardless of my opinion on organic I have to respect a guy who manages to do it on 7,000 acres
Another great interview. Fascinating stuff! Thanks, Mitchell!
this interview needed to be at least an hour long!! hopefully we see more from Rick!! on off the husk maybe??
There is a video on lance klessigs channel with this guy speaking at a seminar that is really good. He goes into great detail about there crop rotations and types of cover crops and how they manage them and how they effect yield and cost. I think video title is something like economics of regenerative agriculture ?
First time listener. Great topic, love the discussion. Thanks for the lead to these podcast from Millennium Farmer. 😎
Awesome. I got started w cover crops 4 years ago and sadly it’s been so wet at harvest past two years and made it where we couldn’t get cover crops planted and have had to till all acres. Sucks, but hopefully this will be the year we get back on track. I’m in the southeast and we desperately need that ground cover to conserve moisture during our crazy hot summer. This year has started off great. Corn just got planted a few weeks ago, and should be been waist high by now, but again rain rain rain. Our produce looks amazing and honestly couldn’t ask for a better start on vegetables 🍅. We don’t farm but 800 acres, row crops and ab 50 acres of produce, but sadly the 50 acres of produce is what always makes a profit. All we’ve done is lose on soybeans past few years. Going to grow grain sorghum for first time this year. Got some new farms that’s been nothing but soybeans for past 20 years, I’m dead serious. Got to have a rotation and plan was corn, but no way I can plant that much corn w market as bad as it is. Praying the markets bounce back good. All of us farmers need a great year and I pray every one of you has a super blessed profitable year 🙏
A&R Farms keep working on changing that up! What about downsizing away from some of the least profitable acres so you can focus on growing the profitable produce acres? - Mitchell
What an informative, intelligent video.......hope all is well for all farmers. Thanks for posting admire your work Mitchell
O Man I wish you all the best!
Nice! Thank you for this.
I love "now your the weird farmer and that is what I want to be"
innovators are always weird!!!!
Fantastic content thanks
Id love to see where this awesome guys upto now since your inputs have near doubled!! Amazing guy amazing show thanks guys!!!
An awesome vid!!!!!
Do you happen to know if they give out classes?
Thank you
OH YEAH! Keep up the EX work guys, you're inspiring.. Organic regenerative farming IS the way to go now, with ruthless herbicides/pesticides (like glyphosate) harming all life -- including humans! -- & damaging our immune systems.. THIS is the better way, to future health & prosperity🌲
The fact that you think glyphosate is a pesticide tells me all I need to know
@@zeusmacafee5097 glyphosate is a pesticide which tells me everything I need to know.
Adam Trost glyphosate is an herbicide, used to kill weeds, pesticides kill bugs. And if you think glyphosate harms everything well so does soap and bleach so should be stop using them?
@@zeusmacafee5097 Insecticides kill bugs. Pesticides is an all encompassing word that includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides. If you don't believe me just google it.
Planting at boot high in Rye
Crimper goes over a few weeks after
How tall and what stage are the soys at?
Interesting 👍
Rick spoke at a conference in Wisconsin this winter and here are my notes:
• 100 lbs or more of cereal rye planted in the fall--need this much to get enough density to serve as mulch for weed control
• Planted beans at boot stage of the rye at the end of April
○ Beans need a longer growing season than previously thought. So beans are planted before corn.
○ It is about 45 days until anthesis of the rye, when it is best to crimp them. Lignin is at it's highest point, so plant is most vulnerable to snap, and kill.
Don't want the beans to be beyond V2 stage of growth when crimping the rye.
Can you fill me in a bit more how the diversity improves the PH? Give me some low level science on that. I am cover cropping my hunting farm food plots. Rotating spring and fall with different blends. Same theory as Ag but more for deer! I am down to almost zero herbicides, only 100# of fertilizer last year.