Exploring Creative Residue Management and Soil Amendments in a Four-Crop Rotation – Winter Webinar

Over the past 10 years, Norm Lamothe and the team at Woodleigh Farms have made many changes to improve soil health. First, they added wheat to the farm’s corn-soy rotation in 2015. A few years later, they added oats. After a major fire in 2018 took out the hog barns, the farm team began focusing mainly on row crops, adding cover crops and using no-till on most of their acres. These changes have pushed Norm and his team to find creative ways of managing residue, including by grazing sheep and composting the residue. Throughout these efforts, the team has documented results through on-farm research. Tune in to this webinar to hear what the Woodleigh team has found about the impacts of extended rotation, cover crops and organic amendments on soil health.