Farmer Mimics Mother Nature
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With the Fourth of July holiday, it is nice to meet family and friends and reflect on life and the blessings we have in this country. It is also nice to hear and learn how some successful family farms that are thriving. Here is a local story revised from Farm Journal and Ag Web. Les Seiler and his family farm in northwest Ohio in Fulton county near the Michigan border. The Seiler’s plant cover crops on every acre of land that is planted with the goal of keeping a living root in the ground year-round. They do that by mimicking Mother Nature, using no-till and cover crops to build soil health. The Seiler’s include Les and Jerry and their two sons farming near Fayette, Ohio. Seiler’s started out strip tilling in the fall of 2010. Unfortunately, the wind blew all winter and moved the black soil on some new land they had purchased off the mounds. So that was the last strip tilling the family did. They started no-tilling...