Coffee Time Wednesday with Kent and Riley. We dig into the National Cover Crop Survey: who's planting covers, what it costs, why so many farmers quit after one year, and whether Iowa can pay its way to cleaner water. Plus a combine door that tried to end harvest.
hokseynativeseeds.com (for all your native seed, backyard prairie, hunting mixes, CRP mixes, native pasture mixes, and more)
iowacovercrop.com (for all your cover crop mixes, waterway mixes, forage mixes, small grains, and more)
MckayInsAgency.com (for all your financial planning and insurance needs)
Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show: Mom or Dad
2:00 Fixing the Combine Chain
4:00 Metal Through the Combine Cylinder
6:00 Machines Used Three Weeks a Year
10:00 Family Thanksgivings
12:00 Coffee Time Intro
16:00 The National Cover Crop Survey
18:00 How to Lie with Statistics
20:00 Equipment Access for Cover Crops
22:00 Cover Crops After Harvest
28:00 Sponsor
30:00 EQIP, CRP and Land Value
34:00 Tying Insurance to Conservation Practices
36:00 What Iowa Would Pay for Cover Crops
38:00 State Budget Deficit
40:00 Crop Insurance and Food Security
42:00 Getting Young People Interested
44:00 Who Pays More at the Grocery Store
48:00 Diverse Systems and Margins
50:00 No One Is Coming to Save Us
52:00 Change Takes Generations
54:00 Wrap Up
