Here on the On-Farm Trials Podcast, host Carol McFarland dives into the different trials that come with farming systems innovation in the inland Pacific Northwest, speaking with professionals all across the region about how they get things done.
This episode of the On-Farm Trials podcast features an interview with farmer Douglas Poole in Mansfield, Washington as he describes how his trials are intended to work with the ecological systems on his farm. Douglas shares his experiences from collaring cows to harnessing soil microbes, planting alternative crops, hosting landlord parties to talk cover cropping and soil health, a decades-long legacy of biosolids, and creating/conserving sage grouse habitat on the farm.
In this episode we hear a career retrospective from Tracy Erikson outside of St. John, WA, and how his lifetime pursuit of learning has evolved innovation and trials on the farm along with his impact on the landscape over decades. He describes starting the fabrication of his first no-till drill up to current interests and trials looking under the microscope for signs of soil health, spray water quality, and opportunities in drone technology on the farm.
This episode of the On-Farm Trials podcast features Clint Zenner of Zenner Family Farms in Genesse, ID and his collaboration as a PI on the PNW cover crops project alongside Kendall Kahl of the University of Idaho. A conversation with them highlights years of working together that has resulted in a wealth of knowledge on cover crops, cows, and even earth worms! Listen to their conversation about how they are working together to ask and answer important soil health and cropping systems innovation for the farm and region with their on-farm trials.
This episode of the On-Farm Trials podcast features Clint Zenner of Zenner Family Farms in Genesse, ID and his collaboration as a PI on the PNW cover crops project alongside Kendall Kahl of the University of Idaho. A conversation with them highlights years of working together that has resulted in a wealth of knowledge on cover crops, cows, and even earth worms! Listen to their conversation about how they are working together to ask and answer important soil health and cropping systems innovation for the farm and region with their on-farm trials.