Arkansas Organic Chronicles

Send us Fan Mail Upgrades to the JangGang complete. What did we do? Find us online at ArkansasOrganic.org Center for Arkansas Farms and Food YouTube

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Luke and Joe talk about the Illinois Watershed court ruling regarding chicken waste, seed starting, and Jang seeder upgrades.   Find us online at ArkansasOrganic.org Center for Arkansas Farms and Food YouTube

Send us Fan Mail Luke and Joe are live talking about carrot and beet tractor scale production and winter cover crops. Visit  https://arkansasorganicag.uada.edu/events/ for more details about the Organic Farming 101 In-Service Training in Searcy on November 4th and the Organic Farm Tour at Dripping Springs Garden on November 9th. Find us online at ArkansasOrganic.org Center for Arkansas Farms and F...

Send us Fan Mail Lanny Ashlock from The Natural Soybean and Grain Alliance joins the show to talk organic soybean production and the status of their OREI funded conventional tillage and no-till systems. Register for the October 14th field day.   Find us online at ArkansasOrganic.org Center for Arkansas Farms and Food YouTube

Send us Fan Mail Luke and Joe talk about choosing the right cover crops for next years crop plan, upcoming events, and tractorizing your hand tool scale farm.  Find us online at ArkansasOrganic.org Center for Arkansas Farms and Food YouTube

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I recap my observations from the Midwest Mechanical Field Day in Ames, IA.  Find us online at ArkansasOrganic.org Center for Arkansas Farms and Food YouTube

Send us Fan Mail In the August live episode, Karen Maldenado joins the show to talk about keeping plants alive and healthy during the summer and getting ready for fall planting. Find us online at ArkansasOrganic.org Center for Arkansas Farms and Food YouTube

Send us Fan Mail Cailin Irby, CAFF Farm Manager, joins the show to talk about the goods and the bads of organic transition year 1! Find us online at ArkansasOrganic.org Center for Arkansas Farms and Food YouTube

Send us Fan Mail Part 10 and the final episode of the weed management series. In this episode I wrap up the series with a discussion on cultivation tools for small seeded crops.  Find us online at ArkansasOrganic.org Center for Arkansas Farms and Food YouTube

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I talk about cultivating transplants and large seeded crops. This is part 9 of the weed management series! Find us online at ArkansasOrganic.org Center for Arkansas Farms and Food YouTube

Send us Fan Mail Luke and Joe talk seasonal updates. This episode air live on the CAFF Facebook and YouTube channels. Find us online at ArkansasOrganic.org Center for Arkansas Farms and Food YouTube

Send us Fan Mail My thoughts on tools and best practices for cultivating the edge of plastic mulch without tearing it! Find us online at ArkansasOrganic.org Center for Arkansas Farms and Food YouTube

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we cover cultivator toolbars, shanks, and shovel. What's on the market and what do they do. Find us online at ArkansasOrganic.org Center for Arkansas Farms and Food YouTube

Send us Fan Mail Luke and Joe travel around the CAFF farm talking about pests, tomatoes, cover crops, and more! This episode aired live on YouTube and Facebook. Find us online at ArkansasOrganic.org Center for Arkansas Farms and Food YouTube

Send us Fan Mail Luke and Joe discuss spring nitrogen assessment, mulches, and cabbage moth! This episode was recorded live on Facebook and YouTube. Find us online at ArkansasOrganic.org Center for Arkansas Farms and Food YouTube

Send us Fan Mail Colin Massey from UADA Extension joins the discussion to talk about scouting cabbage moth, corn earworm/tomato fruit worm, and squash vine borer.   Find current scouting numbers from around the state on the UADA Pest Monitoring in Arkansas webpage.   Find us online at ArkansasOrganic.org Center for Arkansas Farms and Food YouTube

Send us Fan Mail Cailin Irby, CAFF Farm Manager, joins the show today to talk about transitioning the small scale and tractor scale fields at CAFF to Certified Organic. Find us online at ArkansasOrganic.org Center for Arkansas Farms and Food YouTube

Send us Fan Mail Before we dive into toolbars, shanks, and cultivators, I provide a few updates on what I got wrong so far from a tractor perspective. I also talk about a few things that have gone well! Find us online at ArkansasOrganic.org Center for Arkansas Farms and Food YouTube

Send us Fan Mail It's March and Luke and Joe are back for another live episode!  In this episode they talk about cover crops and supplemental nitrogen sources.  Find us online at ArkansasOrganic.org Center for Arkansas Farms and Food YouTube

Send us Fan Mail Luke and Joe are live once again! Today we are talking about organic records for seeds and transplant media and talking cover crops. Find us online at ArkansasOrganic.org Center for Arkansas Farms and Food YouTube

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk about refurbishing an old diesel offset tractor.  Specifically focused on the fuel and electrical systems. Find us online at ArkansasOrganic.org Center for Arkansas Farms and Food YouTube

Send us Fan Mail In this episdoe I discuss bringing and old gasoline cultivator tractor back to daily reliability. Things to check, fix, and replace to make it reliable and dependable. Find us online at ArkansasOrganic.org Center for Arkansas Farms and Food YouTube

Send us Fan Mail Luke and Riley join the show as we broadcast live from the NWA Regional Regional Farmer Gathering in Springdale.  I apologize, the audio is a little rough due to background noise at the conference.   Find us online at ArkansasOrganic.org Center for Arkansas Farms and Food YouTube

Send us Fan Mail We continue our discussion on available cultivator tractors with the Allis G, Tilmor 520, and row crop tractors and their variants.   Find us online at ArkansasOrganic.org Center for Arkansas Farms and Food YouTube

Send us Fan Mail Today we deep dive into the weeds...I mean offset cultivator tractors. Probably more than you would ever want to know about offset tractors. Today we talk about what is available, some of the pro's and con's of each, and which ones are good buys today.  Find us online at ArkansasOrganic.org Center for Arkansas Farms and Food YouTube