September 12, 2024

Dan Taylor farms with his family, along with one full-time and two part-time employees, in southwest Iowa growing corn, soybeans and forage crops for their cattle. They also raise 2,400 pigs for Niman Ranch. Their cattle graze on a cereal rye cover crop in spring, made possible by their efforts to fence row-crop acres. This year, they will grow oats for oatlage, following that with millet also for summer forage. Dan values how bringing livestock onto the farm helps the local community by providing jobs on the farm and in local lockers. Join Dan and his family to learn more about how they’re integrating row crops and livestock, how they manage their cover crops and how they strive for crop diversity.