Dale Strickler on "Cover Crops for Colorado's Arid Front Range"

In this 55-minute video, Dale Strickler of Green Cover Seed presents information about soil structure, soil aggregates, effects of cover crops on soil and water infiltration, case studies in the use of cover crops, and suitable cover crops/strategies for Colorado’s arid Front Range. Dale speaks and shows slides for 37 minutes, followed by 17 minutes of Q&A. Questions include:
• What recommendations do you have for Front Range growers?
• Can I use cover crops as a bio-fumigant?
• What should I do about high soil phosphorus?
• Is the Green Cover Seed Field Day an annual event?

[@joshuafinch9192]

Dale just gets better and better at explaining this topic. Excellent presentation.

[@citizensciencesoilhealthpr7586]

Glad you think so.

[@kayerhoads3444]

This video is the most comprehensive explanation for the use of cover crop, no tillage methods I've ever seen. Thank you so much, Dale!! You are awesome for your expertise and explanation of saving the planet. I also practice deep mulch, no till and some cover cropping in a half acre garden. We have cows which are rotated in paddocks, broadcast clover, and no medication. Our cows are too fat, and are very tasty. I'm still building up the garden with leaves, wood chip paths, and all the mulch from grass, weeds, and compost from kitchen and chickens. I attribute the most of my garden success to some cover cropping, and wood chips, giving aeration and material breakdown of chips. I'm sure the microbiology is more pronounced because our plot gets better each year. Thanks again!

[@citizensciencesoilhealthpr7586]

I forwarded you reply on to Dale. Thanks so much.

[@TheVickster321]

Thank you so much for sharing this! I am studying Natural Resources at Oregon State University with a minor in soil science. I am most likely going to be moving to the Denver area June 2024 and trying to learn more about the management of Colorado's soils.

[@tinfoilhatscholar]

Love the focus on sunlight harvesting!!
All new energy here on earth comes from our sun, and photosynthesis is the (people's) gateway to accessing free power!

[@michaelripperger5674]

Interesting video- thanks

[@citizensciencesoilhealthpr7586]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jacoberickson6028]

I don’t think any one practice should be a one size fits all best practice. I plant many different cover crops depending on what’s going in the bed after some chop and drop, some living mulch, some tilled in for biomass. I will always plant winter rye in the fall and chop and drop in the spring before planting melons and pumpkins mostly for the mulching purposes and after the harvest cover with a silage tarp. It all comes down to proper crop rotation on your bed and what you are trying to accomplish.

[@RubberDuckStyle]

👍👍👍 what is his website?

[@MrFirejun]

youtube.com/@GreenCoverSeed
That’s the TH-cam channel

[@strategicactionservices2206]

Arid front range?! Have you been to the Western Slope?