I'm over here standing in a big field of cover crops where Green Cover has lots of different cover crop species and mixes on display. Something else interesting going on at the Green Cover tent this year is a cool new product from Terraform. This is a product that helps you determine if cover crops might be able to solve compaction issues on your farm. Let's hear from Josh Jeske of Terraform to tell you more about it.

"This measures in pounds per square inch, how much force it takes to poke down into your soil and that mimics what a root is feeling. So a lot of things can influence that. Your soil texture can influence that. Soil moisture can influence that as well. But what we're looking for is your soil to be as mellow as possible. That's what's going to help you in your cash crop the very best. So let's just measures in PSI. So anything under 200 PSI is fantastic. That's exactly what you're looking for. Some of the best fields I've ever done in the four years of doing this as a service for different farmers around the country, I found that no-till with specific cover crops can have a beautiful effect on mellowing out that soil."

"We just released these one year ago today and I'm super excited to say that we're now in 32 countries. And it's not just your regular corn and soy that we're seeing. To my surprise as a corn and soybean farmer, I thought that was going to be the big hit. It still is, but we're seeing all sorts of different species in food and produce, agroforestry, lawn and turf even is another great application for using compaction testers. All we've really done here is made smartphone mounts for all the different brands and gave a free app so that you can download and collect these measurements and map them out in real time."

Interesting stuff from Josh Jeske. We'll have a lot more about his research and more about that product. Again, you can find all that at notillfarmer.com. Well, I'm standing in the field here with, yeah, you read that right, 14 different species in this cover crop mix. It says it's a warm season soil builder. This is just one of about a dozen different mixes that Green Cover had on display this year. So lots of awesome cover crop learning. And again, more to come on that in the coming weeks.

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