Dave Brandt’s Legacy Lives On for Generations
We are in Carroll, Ohio at Walnut Creek Seeds Farm, home of the legendary Dave Brandt and we are going to toss it off to our cover crop segment here with Dave Brandt’s grandson — Chris.
Sometimes Joe Kriegel cringes when he drives past farms in his county and sees erodible hilltops that have been worked.
There was a time, decades ago, when Kriegel moldboard plowed soybean stubble in the fall for his dad, but that’s no longer the case today on his 2,000-acre farm near Brooklyn, Iowa.
Kriegel and his sons have built a 3-year rotation of narrow-row corn, soybeans and cover crops that has reduced erosion and mellowed once…