Economics: Jorgensen Land and Cattle Case Study (Part 3 of 5)
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When:
Nov 27, 2017 12:00 am US/Eastern
Length: 00:04 (hh:mm)
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Presenter(s):
- Bryan Jorgensen, Nick Jorgensen, Robin "Buz" Kloot, & Barrett Self
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Merit or Myth? Engaging the Community on the Critical Issue of Soil Health
In our previous video of the Jorgensen Land and Cattle Economics Case Study, Nick Jorgensen discussed some of the savings they were able to realize in their long-term, no-till fields where typically Organic Matter measured over three percent. What the Jorgensen land and cattle operation was able to do in this analysis was save about $50 an acre on N and P2O5 fertilizer and exceed the 168 bushel yield goal by 8 bushels. All of this begins with no-till and other tools like diverse rotations, cover crops and in the case of the Jorgensens, the inclusion of grazing livestock into the system as they try as far as possible to imitate some of the processes on the Native Prairie. Keep in mind we are not advocating that viewers go out and immediately cut back on fertilizer, but we do want to open the idea up that when we build our soils, we not only have the potential to save on tillage costs, fertilizer, chemical and other inputs. When we let soils function the way that natural systems do, we save on inputs and in the Jorgensen’s case, they were able to do this without decreasing production. Our next video in this series poses the question “how long can they keep this up?”, the answer would be “longer than you’d think!”
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