No Till Farmer: Steward of the Land

For more Stories, Food News, and Cooking Fresh videos, please visit http://cookingupastory.com This is a story about a farmer, Dan Forgey, and his connection to the land, and the community in which he has lived throughout his life. This is also a story about a true pioneer, and the pioneering spirit that seems to inspire this particular community of farmers to farm in a different manner.

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See related video: The Next Step: Adding Cover Crop to a No Till System http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blxe7S41q9s

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[FireweedFarm]

Nice video on farming, small town. Needed! But what's his rotation and use of chemicals? With no till there was more need for chemicals to kill weeds & maybe add a fungicide, more dependency on Big Chem, not rotate crops. Ridge till, by comparison, can be done organically. No till leaves organic matter on top. A heavy rain washes light humus. Stalks float away. Anhydrous ammonia here? It kills life in soil, causes compaction. Now they're working on organic no till, totally different.

[cookingupastory]

@FireweedFarm

Thanks for your comment. The video was part of a series that we produced on this no till farmer. For more detailed information on his farming methods, please watch: The Next Step: Adding Cover Crop To A No-Till System youtube.com/watch?v=Blxe7S41q9­s where you will find a pdf download for rotation schedule. I don't know the chemicals that he uses, however he did tell us he uses less chemicals (especially fertilizers) as a result of adding a cover crop to his no till practices.

[Godzilla1909]

How about Monsanto and the seed problem? Can you use your own seed?

[cookingupastory]

@Godzilla1909

Thanks for the excellent question. This is what Dan Forgey has to say on the subject: "You can replant your own wheat, field pea, flax, barley, and oat seed. Corn and soybean seed all has the round up trait form Monsanto and you can not replant these crops even for cover crop."

"Monsanto gets a tech fee on all corn and soybean seed that is sold and that is huge. A lot of time that is huge with it running $10 to $15 dollars an acre."

See Related Video: The Next Step: Adding ...

[mrsfinchie]

I like him. The reason why there is industrial farming in my opinion is greed. More food = more money. We need more people like Dan to love their job, love the land, and love God.

[MrMyfastloan]

This was a very informative video!

[theproducegarden]

very interesting! thank you