Mackane Vogel here with this week’s cover crop connection and as i said before we are in Elizabethtown Pennsylvania at Jim Hershey’s farm and why don’t we see what Jim Hershey has been working on this year with cover crops.
“This barley here will be harvested in two weeks and then we want to plant some sudan sorghum to try and get some green cover and we are going to do a live planting demo the day of the event. It still looks a little — well I think that would plant on top. Hmm — we might have to consider that here. Hey — it’s plenty moist enough but I think just for shallow no-till, I wouldn't wanna plant all my crop in that wet of a soil but I like that. It’s plenty wet down lower but I think there's enough dry soil on top and it crumbles well enough, but just look at the root development there just from the barley. It goes down there 3 or 4 inches just from the barley. Thats great, i am glad thats drying out enough to get some planting done here in this area for the soil pit.”
Alright well there will be lots more content from my East Coast farm trip to come in the coming weeks but that’s all for this week’s cover crop connection.
