by Solvita | Aug 29, 2014 | Blog
(L) At Criswell Farms a cover crop mix is rolled, and blades open up a space to immediately plant the next crop. (R) John Chibirka demonstraes water infiltration on Jim Harbach’s Schrack Farms (Bottom) Lucas Criswell shows how alterations to equipment enabled planting...
by Kyrie | Apr 26, 2014 | Blog
Soil Health aficionados like to say that roots and worms make channels down into the soil – transferring nutrients and carbon between soil layers. What this looks like in reality was made clear at a recent Soil Health field-day in Berwick, PA, sponsored by NRCS and...
by Solvita | Nov 6, 2013 | Blog
“They are actually growing soil here”, John Chibirka (USDA-NRCS PA) told the 19th annual Cover Crop and Soil Health gathering of 300 farmers on Steve Groff’s no-till-cover crop farm in Holtwood PA. He was referring to when the 2006 World Soil Congress visited Steve’s...
