Cover crops, strip tillage demonstrations
Cover crops, strip tillage among demonstrations at 96th Huron County Ploughing Match
The 96th Annual Huron County Ploughing Match took place near Bayfield on August 16, 2024.
Huron County Soil and Crop Improvement Association (HSCIA) held a Huron County equipment and crop demonstration.
The demonstration provided agricultural producers with information on how to change to strip till or to upgrade existing strip-tilling equipment.
Lawrence Levesque, from Speare Seeds, provided information on cover crops.
Cover crops are plants that are grown in agricultural fields both before the main crop is planted and after it is harvested. Cover crops have many benefits to the landowner and the community. Cover crops help to protect water quality and build soil health; help to reduce loss of nutrients and topsoil and reduce the amount of speed of water running off of land; and help to reduce wind speed at ground level which reduces wind and water erosion and the speed of water runoff.
Other presenters at the cover crop and Strip Till equipment demonstration included:
- Rick Kootstra, from HSCIA and the Huron County Demonstration Farm at the Huronview complex near Clinton, Ontario demonstrating an Environmental Tillage Systems, Inc. Soil Warrior zone tillage and precision nutrient placement system.
- Claussen Farms Custom Farming Inc., demonstrating a home-made Strip Till machine.
- McGavin Farm Equipment Ltd./Robert's Farm Equipment Sales Inc. presenting a KUHN Krause Gladiator® strip-tillage system.
- Hyde Brothers Farm Equipment Ltd. exhibiting Remlinger Manufacturing equipment.
- Delta Power Equipment featuring an Unverferth Manufacturing Co., Inc. Raptor machine.
Vermue Farms Ltd. hosted this year’s match which was organized by the Huron County Plowmen.
In a post on X (Twitter), Huron Soil and Crop extended “ ... a big thanks to the Vermue family and the 96th Huron County Plowing Match for letting us make use of the farm to do a cover crop demonstration by Lawrence Levesque from Speare Seeds and doing a Strip Till demonstration organized by Huron Soil and Crop.”
TOP PHOTO: Attendees look at the strip-till demonstration at Huron County Ploughing Match in August of 2024. (Photo courtesy of Huron County Soil and Crop Improvement Association).
BOTTOM PHOTO: Shown in photo are Steve Taylor, a farmer from the Varna area, and Mari Veliz, Healthy Watersheds Manager at Ausable Bayfield Conservation. They took the opportunity to check out vintage tractors, cover crops, and strip tillage.
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