{"id":5164,"date":"2014-07-17T21:10:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T01:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=5164"},"modified":"2014-07-17T21:10:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T01:10:32","slug":"ive-got-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=5164","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Got Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We seeded a cover crop trial plot today.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5165\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5165\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_20140715_114125_591.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_20140715_114125_591-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Seeds\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_20140715_114125_591-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_20140715_114125_591-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seeds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From left to right there&#8217;s triticale, hairy vetch, buckwheat, rapeseed, phacelia, cowpeas, and a radish and Austrian winter pea mix.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5166\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5166\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_20140715_114822_018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_20140715_114822_018-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Cover Crop Seeder\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_20140715_114822_018-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_20140715_114822_018-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover Crop Seeder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tom&#8217;s seeding the plots using a hand seeder that belonged to his Grandpa Hively. We use that seeder all the time; for seeding filter strips, grass waterways, and test plots. <\/p>\n<p>Our plots are small, about 1000 square feet. We&#8217;re just trying to find out which of these will grow seeded this way.  We really like what cover crops do for our soil, and we&#8217;re trying to figure out how we can get them seeded in a way that doesn&#8217;t take too much labor or cost.  This is about the time we&#8217;ll spray the soybeans for the last time, so if we can find something that will grow when seeded now, we can strap a seeder onto the sprayer and essentially seed our cover crops at no extra cost.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe we&#8217;ll just have Tom hike over 1000 acres with his Granddaddy&#8217;s seeder!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeding a trial of triticale, hairy vetch, buckwheat, rapeseed, phacelia, cowpeas, and a radish and Austrian winter pea mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}