Ray Archuleta

Soil Health: Numbers vs. Knowing

July 18, 2014
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog, Water
cover crops, dead zone, diversity, Land Stewardship Project, Martin and Loretta Jaus, nitrates, NRCS, Ray Archuleta, Rob Myers, rotational grazing, runoff, SARE, soil health

Sometimes it takes a bit of an evangelist to remind us that praying at the altar of facts and figures can blind one to how they all connect in the bigger picture.…
Cover Crops: Not Just Foul Weather Friends

February 21, 2014
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog, Water
cover crops, erosion, Gabe Brown, Howard G. Buffett, Land Stewardship Project, mob grazing, National Conference on Cover Crops and Soil Health, Ray Archuleta, Rob Myers, row crops, runoff, SARE, Soil and Water Conservation Society, soil health

Cover crops proved themselves foul weather friends during the Great Drought of 2012. A groundbreaking farmer survey conducted in the Upper Mississippi River watershed showed that during that year’s brutal growing season…