Univ of Wisconsin Integrated Pest and Crop Management's video: Cover Crops after Corn Silage Benefits for Soil Health

Take a look at how we bring the textbook definition of soil health to real life agriculture using cover crops following corn silage. The first principle is minimizing disturbance. The second principle is keeping it covered. The third principle is living root year-round, and the fourth principle is getting some diversity and rotation. Speaker: Brian Briski, Natural Resource Conservation Service Area Resource Conservationist, Altoona, Wisconsin To learn more about Soil Health see below link. https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/national/soils/health/ https://fyi.extension.wisc.edu/covercrop http://michaelfields.org https://ipcm.wisc.edu Funding: North Central Region SARE, Professional Development Grant Program Acknowledgements: Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, UW-Madison Nutrient and Pest Management Program, UW-Madison Integrated Pest Management Program, Wisconsin Conservation Cropping Systems Coalition, Arlington Agricultural Research Station, University of Wisconsin-Madison, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Division of Extension Video production: Roger Schmidt, Daniel H. Smith, Nutrient and Pest Management Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, copyright 2019