Posts Tagged ‘dan forgey’

The Unconventional Harvest: A Large No-Till Organic Farm

I met Emily Stiegelmeier near Route 12 at the intersection of two long and lonely dirt roads near her 4,000 acre farm.

No Till Farmer: Steward of the Land (video)

Gettysburg, South Dakota. This is a story about a farmer, Dan Forgey, and his connection to the land, and the community in which he has lived throughout his life. This is also a story about a true pioneer, and the pioneering spirit that seems to inspire this particular community of farmers to farm in a [...]

Growing Cover Crop with a Cash Crop (video)

Dan Forgey, of Cronin Farms, describes his ongoing research with cover crops, this time looking at how they might be grown in sync with a cash crop of corn.

The Next Step: Adding Cover Crop to a No Till System (Video)

As manager of the 8,500-acre Cronin Farms in Gettysburg, S.D., Dan Forgey strives to build soil health—and yields—sustainably.