Soil Health Field Day with Steve Groff
Date: 08/21/18
Location: Hutchinson, KS
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When Matt Griggs decided to embark on no-till practices more than a decade ago he was already dealing with a degraded soil resource. More than 100 years of conventional tillage and a monoculture of cotton on his family’s rolling farm ground had caused erosion and stripped soils of organic matter.
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