1,700 beneficial insect species for every 1 pest species!

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1 Gabe Brown

2 Symptom:Pests

3 1,700 beneficial insect species for every 1 pest species!

4 Lady Beetles (Predators) Pupae Larva

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7 Buckwheat

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11 Species to Use to Attract Beneficials: Grasses Barley Broadleaves Buckwheat Hairy Vetch Clovers Woollypod Vetch Cowpeas Field Peas Fava Bean

12 Feeding the Whole

13 Soil Organic Matter is the House microbes live in, Water Extractable Organic Carbon is the Food they eat. House 2% SOM, 12,000 ppm C Food ppm C from water extract = microbial food

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16 Fall Seeded Biennials

17 Option (Only in Emergency) Haying

18 Economics Drought?

19 Combine

20 Option - Grazing

21 Mob Grazing High Carbon Biennials

22 Next Move

23 Carbon!

24 Soil Armor

25 Continue Regeneration

26 A key strategy in sustainable agriculture is to restore functional biodiversity of the agricultural landscape (Altieri, 1994). Biodiversity performs key ecological services and if correctly assembled in time and space can lead to agroecosystems capable of sponsoring their own soil fertility, crop protection and productivity. (Altieri, 1994)

27 What About Yield Drag? Too Many Make The Mistake Of Removing Fertilizer Usage Immediately. Cover Crops and The Biology They Enhance Are Made Up Of Nutrients. One Must Account For This Otherwise One Will Have A Yield Drag! Management, Management, Management!!!

28 Question: Can It Work Here? Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right. Henry Ford

29 Covers Are Advancing Soils Everywhere!! Covers Are Working On Every Continent In The World Where There Is Production Agriculture!

30 David Brandt 60 Rainfall in bu. Corn No Tile Drainage No Fertilizer

31 Mixed cover crops

32 Effects of mixed cover crops in continuous no-till on soil total nitrogen content under corn-soybean-wheat rotation Effects LSD p<0.05 Cover crop 0.01 Soil depth 0.03 Dr. Islam 2012

33 Effects of mixed cover crops in continuous no-till on soil active carbon content under corn-soybean-wheat rotation Effects Cover crop 54 Soil depth 89 LSD p<0.05 Dr. Islam 2012

34 Effects of mixed cover crops in continuous no-till on soil moisture storage under corn-soybean-wheat rotation 0 2 Soil moisture (%) Effects Cover crop 1.6 Soil depth 2.1 LSD p<0.05 Depth (inch) Dr. Islam August 2, 2012

35 Effects of mixed cover crops in continuous no-till on soil porosity content under corn-soybean-wheat rotation Effects Cover crop 2.1 Soil depth 4.0 LSD p<0.05 Dr. Islam 2012

36 Darrin Williams, Waverly Kansas

37 Michael Thompson and Father

38 3 Year No-till vs. Conventional Till Michael Thompson Farm

39 Michael Thompson, Thompson Farm and Ranch drought 2454 Road E 11, Almena, KS No-till corn with cover crops made 58 bu/ac (on 7 in. of total rainfall) Neighbor who conventional tilled corn made 5 bu/ac (he harvested it) ( conventional till corn planted into worked wheat stubble)

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41 Ray McCormick: Indiana

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44 If One Focuses On Soil Health The Symptoms Are Taken Care Of!!

45 Don Campbell

46 Questions?

47 Contact Information Gabe Brown (Cell): Paul Brown (Cell): Join Brown s Ranch on Facebook Website: brownsranch.us

48 20 cm layer Same Soils: Dynamic Soil Properties Changed! 62.8% loss of SOM after 17 yr intensive tillage Forest SOM = 4.3 % CT 17 yr- Soybean monoculture SOM = 1.6 %

49 Utilize energy efficiently- understand the power of diversity: Collaboration is more apparent than Competition: ND case study: 2006 Production On Burleigh District Plot with 1.8 in. of rain Lbs./dry matter/plot

50 Last 50 acres of corn on home farm planted 5-25 in chest high rye

51 Double crop beans harvested in late november drilled rye, spring 4000 gal hog manure applied in mid april

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53 DIVERSITY!

54 Diversity Above Ground

55 Diversity Below Ground Fibrous Roots Tap Roots Shallow Intermediate Deep

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57 Living Root As Long As Possible Must Continue The Liquid Carbon Pathway. Cannot Afford To Not Have Living Roots!

58 Fill Every Window You Can!

59 Cowpea/ProsoMillet/Buckwheat

60 Seeded 8/15 Following Oat Harvest

61 Colin Seis No Kill Cropping

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65 Symptom:Pests

66 3,500 beneficial insect species for every 1 pest specie!

67 Lady Beetles (Predators) Pupae Larva

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70 Buckwheat

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74 Species to Use to Attract Beneficials: Grasses Barley Broadleaves Buckwheat Hairy Vetch Clovers Woollypod Vetch Cowpeas Field Peas Fava Bean

75 Colin Seis No Kill Cropping

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78 Residue Prior to Corn Planting 5/15

79 No-Till Planting Through Heavy Residue

80 Trash Whippers Lifted

81 When I Say Zero-Till: I MEAN Zero-Till!!

82 Brown s Ranch Same Field June 16, 2009 July 1, 2009 Rapid residue decomposition

83 Residue Consumed by Soil Life

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