How to Supercharge Poor Soil with Cover Crops and Pigs
Dowdle Family Farms Dowdle Family Farms
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 Published On Aug 16, 2022

This video describes how in 16 months we turned worn out, degraded pasture into a thriving paddock without fertilizers that produces tons of high quality forage for livestock. Our Mangalitsa pigs perform really well on pasture.

Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:20 Beginning the Journey to Better Soil
0:50 Winter Cover Crop Mix
1:11 Present Cover Crop Mix
1:45 Pigs Napping in the Cover Crop
1:49 How the Paddock Would Be Set Up in an Ideal World
2:16 How Cover Crops Benefit the Soil
2:22 Benefits of Sorghum x Sudangrass (Sudan Grass)
2:50 Benefits of Hybrid Pear Millet
3:04 Benefits of Sunflowers
3:14 Benefits of Cowpeas and Soybeans
3:38 Benefits of This Cover Crop Mix
3:57 How Pigs Improve the Soil
4:46 Benefits of the Combination of Cover Crops and Pigs
5:00 You Can Improve Your Soil Too!

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