Producer Roy Schneider has been working with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for many years. Roy farms about 400 acres near Foley Minnesota and has implemented strip-till farming practices, rotational cattle grazing, a poultry operation, and built a covered stacking slab through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP). Mike Mcmillin of the Benton County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) joins Roy to help explain these programs and practices and tells how other producers can contact the NRCS and SWCD for more information on these programs. We are also joined by Roy's neighbor, Josh Udermann, who has been working with Roy to implement strip-till and other conservation practices on his farm. Roy's farm is Water Quality Certified. He has also begun to experiment with using cover crops on his fields as he and his family work hard to improve and conserve the soil on their farmland. Videography by Dan Balluff.
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Time stamps:
00:00:00 Introduction to producer Roy Schneider, his family and his operation
00:01:30 How Roy rebuilt his strip-tilling machine
00:02:04 Benefits of strip-tilling
00:03:02 Yields
00:03:10 Soil health
00:04:07 Challenges of strip-till (building a strip-till machine)
00:06:52 Applying fertilizer
00:07:04 Applying herbicide
00:08:15 EQIP and poultry (chicken barn) and manure stacking slab
00:08:20 Mike Mcmillin, Benton County Soil and Water Conservation District
00:08:38 Minnesota Agriculture Water Certification Program
00:12:28 Rotational cattle grazing
00:17:05 Chicken barn
00:18:40 Manure stacking slab
00:21:06 Working with the NRCS (EQIP and CSP)
00:21:39 MN Water Quality Certification Program
00:23:58 Producer Josh Udermann
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