From twin-row 60-inch strip-till to intercropping and autonomous grazing, Zack Smith is always pushing the envelope on his 1,200-acre farm in Buffalo Center, Iowa. During his journey for healthier soils and lower production costs, the fifth-generation farmer developed an alternative style of strip intercropping — called stock cropping — that alternates strips of corn and annual pasture. The pasture strips are grazed by multiple species of livestock within an autonomous mobile-barn system.
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On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Bio Till Cover Crops, Bob and Robby Jewell explain how they incorporate wood chips, cover crops and rotational grazing into their Leopold Conservation Award-Winning no-till system in northeast Iowa.
