Ep. 397 (Coffee Time) Should Cover Crops Be Subsidized? A Review of the National Cover Crop Survey

Coffee Time Wednesday with Kent and Riley. We dig into the National Cover Crop Survey: who's planting covers, what it costs, why so many farmers quit after one year, and whether Iowa can pay its way to cleaner water. Plus a combine door that tried to end harvest.

 

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Chapters:

0:00 Pre-Show: Mom or Dad

2:00 Fixing the Combine Chain

4:00 Metal Through the Combine Cylinder

6:00 Machines Used Three Weeks a Year

10:00 Family Thanksgivings

12:00 Coffee Time Intro

16:00 The National Cover Crop Survey

18:00 How to Lie with Statistics

20:00 Equipment Access for Cover Crops

22:00 Cover Crops After Harvest

28:00 Sponsor

30:00 EQIP, CRP and Land Value

34:00 Tying Insurance to Conservation Practices

36:00 What Iowa Would Pay for Cover Crops

38:00 State Budget Deficit

40:00 Crop Insurance and Food Security

42:00 Getting Young People Interested

44:00 Who Pays More at the Grocery Store

48:00 Diverse Systems and Margins

50:00 No One Is Coming to Save Us

52:00 Change Takes Generations

54:00 Wrap Up