Dave Brandt On Lessons Learned From 45 Years Of Cover Cropping

For this episode of the Cover Crop Strategies podcast, contributing editor Martha Mintz chats with Dave about some of those benefits as well as the lessons he’s learned in his 45 years of using cover crops. Dave talks about how and why he went from using a single species cover crop to a multi-species mix, some of the unusual methods he’s used for measuring nutrient payback from covers, how they’ve helped him reduce fertilizer inputs by 80%, herbicides by 45-50% and fuel by 10-15%, the equipment he uses to plant green into 36,000 pounds of cover crop biomass, and much more.