Wisconsin farmer fine-tunes his cover crop plan

An eastern Wisconsin farmer continues to fine-tune his cover cropping plan.  Dan Brick from Brickstead Dairy Farm near Greenleaf tells Brownfield he began cover cropping after visiting farmers in Pennsylvania about six years ago who were already doing it. “We’re kind of a low-input type on our operation here already. I don’t have much invested in equipment. Our goal was to be able to use the cover crops in replacing expensive equipment to use here on our farm, and it fits very well for us.”

Brick says he tried interseeding a cover crop into his corn and walked away from it three years ago after little success, but he’s about to try again… only a little sooner in the growing season.

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