AgEmerge Podcast 139 with Jon Bakehouse

Jon Bakehouse farms with his family at Maple Edge Farm in Hastings, Iowa. Together, the family is actively engaged in improving soil health on their operations. Jon has done a great deal of work and on-farm research along with Practical Farmers of Iowa. Some of that research includes reducing nitrogen rates for corn in soil health systems, cover crops and water infiltration, suppressing waterhemp with cover crops, and roller crimping cereal rye in soybean production.

Jon Bakehouse farms with his wife Tina, son, Anderson and parents near Hastings, Iowa. The Bakehouses raise corn and soybeans and have a cow-calf herd. As the fifth-generation farming his family’s land, Jon has conducted PFI on-farm research going on seven years and unofficial field trials his entire farming career.

Here are some PFI videos featuring Jon:
Reducing N Rates to Corn in Soil Health Systems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocip4kwlGnQ

Cover Crops and Water Infiltration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y9hcBDcQnQ&t=22s

Suppressing Waterhemp with Cover Crops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LarRjStaXGI&t=5s

Roller Crimping Cereal Rye in Soybean Production
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp3hVyTmLMg&t=7s

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