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A small Clarke County apple orchard is prospering after soils information provided by USDA and expert advice from The Apple Grower helped beginning orchardists start off on the right track.
For nearly 50 years Virginia Reynolds and her late husband Larry worked together to manage their farms to conserve soil and protect water quality. After Larry passed away in 2013, she wrote soil and water conservation practice requirements into the leases for her Clarke County cropland.
Soil conservationists with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) are encouraging Iowa farmers to keep heavy machinery out of wet fields as much and for as long as possible this fall after prolonged above average rainfall wreaked havoc on harvest conditions.
A Monona County couple’s vision for the family farm is becoming reality thanks to a sound plan, a couple years of very hard work, and guidance and assistance from USDA.
Keota farmer Levi Lyle never thought he would be a go-to person for eastern Iowa farmers to rent a roller crimper. But with his interest in eliminating the use of herbicides on portions of his family’s cropland, he now has two crimpers that he uses and rents to farmers from Waterloo to Bloomfield.
A southeast Iowa farm family harvested record average yields in 2016 after managing cropland soils with no-till and cover crops. They attribute the yield bump to a bottoms up approach, by improving returns on typically poor-performing fields.
