Grower panel discusses their strategies for making reduced-tillage systems work for them.

1. EOCC Kemptville 2018

3. • Sustainable Farming
• SEQUENTIAL Items
• 1 Protect the Soil
• 2 Maintain Soil Fertility
• 3 Use Water Efficiently
• 4 Protect the Crop

4. • Our Considerations
• 1 Waterfront
• 2 Neighbours
• 3 Livestock/Manure
• 4 Silty Clay Soil – 80 – 95% silt +clay
• 5 Glacial moraines – steep slopes,
stones, droughty
• 6 Long slope – 100’ to water.

8. • Crop Rotation
• Corn
• Soybeans
• Winter wheat
• Followed be Manure and Mixed cover
• crop
• Some Sunflowers and Red Clover
• 31,400 layers, 130,000 pullets

15. • Cover crop mix
• Wheat
• Barley
• Peas
• Sunflowers
• Daikon radish
• Sorghum/sudan grass
• Left over corn/soy plot seed