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Missouri farmer is SHP “data dominator”

The “Data Dominator” winner in the Soil Health Partnership is central Missouri crop farmer Brian Martin who gathered the required yield information and took it a step further, “I also had several layers of aerial imagery from a couple different platforms in addition to UAV. So, infield pictures as well as the satellite imagery.”

He says his biggest success so far with soil health practices is, “The biggest success over time is continuous use of no-till practices, so continuous no-till.”

And Martin’s biggest challenge is, “Trying to negotiate the weather with the changes in practices that we’re having. So, everything looks great on paper but it doesn’t always pan out that way when you apply it.”

Martin has been using cover crops for a while and is at the early stages of the five year soil health program.  He grows corn and soybeans at his farm near Centralia, Missouri.