Soil Health and Cover Crops with Marty Earnest

Cover crops can prevent soil and wind erosion, improve the soil’s physical and biological properties, supply nutrients, suppress weeds, improve the availability of water, and break pest cycles as well as many other benefits. In this segment of Trailblazer RC&D’s Ecologically Speaking video series, ag producer Marty Earnest shares his success with cover crops during a Soil Health Field Day on his farm in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana. This field day was sponsored by Trailblazer RC&D and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Also see Trailblazer’s “Soil Health and the Rainfall Simulator with Steve Nipper and Rachel Stout-Evans” Soil Health Field Day segment that features a USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) rainfall simulator demonstration.