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Waterloo - Heartland Soil and Crop Improvement Association
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FarmSmart Expo July 13
Wellington Twilight Meeting July 20
Waterloo Bus Trip August 16-18
June 2017 newsletter
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Planting for Future Generations
Meet Dave & Connie Bray
Sustaining Our Soils
Huron's Spring Meeting focuses on erosion & BMPs
Solutions for Soil & Water Quality
Ohio Soil Guru headlines Heartland's Soil Workshop in February.
Coming Full Circle
The conversation on biosolids continues...
Deb Stark Takes on the Challenge
OMAFRA's Deputy Minister talks about the government's role in agriculture.
Wheat Pete
Peter Johnson reflects back on the 2015 season
Transforming Soil with Cover Crops
Farmers share their cover crops tricks at Soil & Crop Annual Meetings
Queen of the Furrow Goes No-Till
Farming near Mitchell, 27-year old Sara Wood and her parents Deb and Don Little are now 6 years into transitioning their 1200 acres to a no-till system with intensive cover cropping.
Benefits of Cover Crops
Watch Ausable Bayfield CA Video
Planting Green Video
Huron Soil & Crop Demonstrate
2015 Forage Expo Video
Waterloo Soil & Crop Hosts Expo
Fungicide Application Taking Off
Farmers go to new heights to keep crops healthy
What Testing Can Tell You
Chris Roelands (Honeyland Ag Services) discusses the variability of nutrient levels over a growing season
Eyes on Huronview
Huron Soil & Crop builds soil health at their Demo Farm near Clinton
Crop Resources
View OMAFRA crop resources and field reports online!
Dare to Plant #RootsNotIron
Thames Valley and Heartland Regions have partnered in a unique project to research three different approaches to farming, with an especially keen interest in understanding a no-till-green-all-the-time approach.
They’ve called the project #RootsNotIron.