Armored Soil

Episode 2: The Living Root

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Today we will meet Heidi from the Hawk Creek Watershed project and our first grower, Dean Dambroten. Dean is the 'financial manager' of the family farm in Western Renville County and is the 4th generation to farm the land. Dean will discuss the operation's:

  • Reduced inputs with switching to strip-till from conventional tillage
    • Fertilizer management
      • Interseeding in young corn and dormant seeding after corn
        • Residue management
          • Weather resiliency to drought and rain
            • Return on investment & yields
              • Equipment changes
                • Green seeding
                  • Diversity in crop rotations
                    • Planting concerns

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