What has been happening over Winter? Things have been a little quiet over the last few months. We’ve had our usual regular monitoring tasks, tracking cover crop development with the Canopeo app and soil nitrate levels with the Nitrate Quick Test protocol, Nitrachek device and our conversions to kg/ha. Now we are focusing on getting…
Month: August 2026
2026 Winter Cover Crops
By the time our summer crop butternuts were removed from the Carbon Positive plots, the vines had dried to rope. We disced and direct drilled cover crop seed but couldn’t run an aerator through without massive tangling. On 26 March, annual ryegrass was sown in both the Conventional and Hybrid plots, and a Triticale/Vetch mix…
2026 – Food Quality Maize
Plans for the 2026-2027 Carbon Positive summer crop Our 2026-2027 summer crop will be a crop of maize grown for Nicolle Grain. The ultimate destination is your plate of nachos, once the grain has been turned into corn chips. We’re grateful that Patrick and Tom Nicolle have agreed to work with us this summer, providing…