Soil Health Conference 2022

Session 3: Farmers Working Together to Build Healthier Soils

January 26, 2022 | SCRCA Stewardship Team

 

This presentation was a part of the St. Clair Region Conservation Authority’s 2022 Soil Health Conference held January 26, 2022.

Features: Tyler Zimmerman (North Dakota farmer), Chris Walberg (North Dakota farmer) and Cameron Ogilvie (Soils at Guelph/Soil Health Institute) as our facilitator.

Tyler and Chris have been farming and friends since they were young. In the last 10 years, they’ve started to focus on soil conservation. Together, they share how they have begun to implement various soil conservation techniques like 100% no-till, incorporating cover crops, 60″ corn, planting green, inter-seeding cover crops, and intercropping.

Recordings of all ten Soil Health Conference 2022 sessions are available online:

• Session 1: Comparing 30″ and 60″ Corn Yields with Cover Crops
• Session 2: Taking a Systems Approach to Cover Crops
• Session 3: Farmers Working Together to Build Healthier Soils
• Session 4: The Pursuit of Biological Diversity in Soils
• Session 5: Long-Term Cover Crop Trials on Corn Yields
• Session 6: Water Infiltration in Soils
• Session 7: Edge of Field Monitoring for No-Tillage Continuous Cover Crops and Reduced Tillage on Brookston Clay
• Session 8: Reducing In-Field Soil Erosion with WASCoBS
• Session 9: Thorndale Demo Farm – Implementation and Evolution of BMPs in the Thames River Watershed
• Session 10: An Introduction to the Living Lab