Composting for Beginners | A Market Gardener's Guide
Apr 25, 2023

Video: Composting for Beginners | A Market Gardener's Guide

This video addresses: compost simplified, compost making for beginners, carbon and nitrogen, carbonaceous materials and nitrogenous materials, leaves, wood chips, compost temperatures, compost turning, and more.
 

Composting for Beginners | A Market Gardener

Composting for Beginners | A Market Gardener's Guide

This video addresses: compost simplified, compost making for beginners, carbon and nitrogen, carbonaceous materials and nitrogenous materials, leaves, wood chips, compost temperatures, compost turning, and more.... More
Picking up new seed!

Picking up new seed!

So half the fun of farming is trying to grow new things, so that's what we hope to do up north this year. Worse case scenario we don't feel comfortable due to weather or something, than we can leave it in the bin and try it next year. Now this will be some of much new purchased seed on both f... More
One Health Strategies: Using a team approach to navigate an outbreak

One Health Strategies: Using a team approach to navigate an outbreak

Alberta beef producers Tyler and Nancy Haraga share details of their "winter from hell," when they faced a Cryptosporidium outbreak and how they recovered using team-based One Health Strategies.... More
How To Replace an Unverferth Seed Tender Conveyor Belt

How To Replace an Unverferth Seed Tender Conveyor Belt

In this video, learn the step-by-step process to replace an Unverferth seed tender conveyor belt. The video will show the viewer how to safely remove the old conveyor belt, insert the new conveyor belt and tension the conveyor belt properly. For more information, please refer to your Unverfert... More
Event 7: Handing over the keys: - transferring knowledge in farm transition

Event 7: Handing over the keys: - transferring knowledge in farm transition

Is your successor set up for transition success? Learn how to share knowledge and help the next generation gain the skills and experience needed to move the farm business forward with FCC Business Advisors Annessa Good and Andrea DeGroot. Your Path to Farm Transition is a 9-part virtual even... More
4D Farms Enriched Housing Laying Hen Barn Tour

4D Farms Enriched Housing Laying Hen Barn Tour

Tour of the laying hen barn on 4D Farms in Springstein, Manitoba... More
What Does Sustainability Mean to Florida Cattle Ranchers?

What Does Sustainability Mean to Florida Cattle Ranchers?

Sustainability isn’t just a buzzword for farmers and ranchers- it’s a way of life. We wrap up our Earth Day special by asking our Florida cattle producers to share their thoughts on what sustainability means to them and their families. Go to this website for more information: www.NCBA.org... More

Mesonet

Mesonet

Wes Lee, OSU Extension Mesonet agricultural coordinator, discusses the rainiest months of the year in Oklahoma and how certain areas differ from one another. State climatologist Gary McManus predicts another hot summer could be in our future.... More
Dust Lock - Wesley Wach

Dust Lock - Wesley Wach

We get the details on a new product called dust lock and how the Nebraska Soybean Board wants to help you get it applied to roads near your operation.... More
Severe Weather and Flooding Delay Planting

Severe Weather and Flooding Delay Planting

California’s State Water Project will provide full allocations this year to 29 water agencies for the first time since 2006. The agency was aided in their decision by 700 inches of snow that has fallen this season in the Sierra Nevada mountains - the 2nd largest amount since 1952. Floodi... More
Release the Pigs! Plus More Barn Upgrades

Release the Pigs! Plus More Barn Upgrades

In this video I finally get my piglets moved out into their big pen. After that it’s off to the ranch to fix a sagging roof on the barn and get everything ready for the new round bale feeder!... More
Integrating Hogs In A Cover-Vegetable rotation: Seeding The Cover Crop

Integrating Hogs In A Cover-Vegetable rotation: Seeding The Cover Crop

This video from our Integrating Hogs In A Cover-Vegetable rotation series demonstrates our cover crop seeding process, we use before moving the hogs between subplots. Special thanks to the Naut'sa mawt Tribal Council and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada for supporting this research. Integ... More
#50 - Alleviating transportation stress in pigs with alginate hydrogel beads - Dr. Arlene Garcia

#50 - Alleviating transportation stress in pigs with alginate hydrogel beads - Dr. Arlene Garcia

Transporting pigs between locations may expose them to various stressors, such as food and water deprivation, physical control, and combination with unfamiliar pigs. Such stressors can disrupt the natural balance of the animals, resulting in non-ambulatory or injured pigs – and even death. In t... More
John Prestage, Swine Web Hall of Fame induction interview on behalf of Bill Prestage

John Prestage, Swine Web Hall of Fame induction interview on behalf of Bill Prestage

John Prestage from Prestage Farms joins us to honour his dad the late great Bill Prestage as we welcome him to the Swine Web Hall of Fame. We discuss Bills journey/career from his beginnings and how he built Presage. We learn about Johns's role in the company, and what this recognition would ... More
Cleaning Out The Hogs Hoop Building

Cleaning Out The Hogs Hoop Building

Cleaning out the hogs hoop building before we got 12 inches of snow.... More
WEBINAR | USDA Quarterly Hogs and Pigs Report | Analysis from Dr. Ron Plain

WEBINAR | USDA Quarterly Hogs and Pigs Report | Analysis from Dr. Ron Plain

The National Pork Board hosted a webinar on Dec. 23, 2021 for pork producers following the release of the USDA Quarterly Hogs and Pigs Report. Guest economists were invited to share insights about the report. Pork Checkoff funds are used to host this webinar to help pork producers understan... More
Free the Swine!

Free the Swine!

Beautiful spring weather is here, and we have so much to get done on the farm!... More
Last Batch of Baby Pigs & Tearing Out Fence

Last Batch of Baby Pigs & Tearing Out Fence

In this one Tork and Sawyer get the last batch of baby pigs up at site 1. Then it’s on to tearing out fence. We are a 6th generation family farm located in southeast Iowa. We enjoy sharing our part in agriculture with you and hope to show our followers the ups and downs of farming.... More
IPTV M2M, Market Analyst Shawn Hackett

IPTV M2M, Market Analyst Shawn Hackett

On this edition of Market to Market: WOTUS survives a veto override while Congress questions the EPA’s chief. Tornadoes and wet weather change the planting pattern. Plus, water quality remains a challenge for Iowa utilities and farmers. And, market analysis with Shawn Hackett.... More
Heavier Weight Limits for Ag Approved for Hauling

Heavier Weight Limits for Ag Approved for Hauling

After months of negotiations, House Bill 189 finally made it through the senate. This bill is a big deal because it will increase the weight limit of trucks hauling agricultural goods on state highways. Damon Jones breaks down this new legislation and explains how it's going to benefit the farme... More
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