Episode #77: Rick Clark
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Rick Clark is a fifth-generation farmer from Warren County, Indiana. Driven by a desire to work alongside mother nature, Rick has been implementing regenerative practices on his farm for almost a decade. Rick\\u2019s commitment to soil health has allowed him to grow his operation to 7000 organic, no-till acres, in part by employing a variety of cover cropping and weed control techniques.
In their conversation, Rick and John Kempf discuss:
- Rick\\u2019s journey to a fully organic operation
- Conventional agriculture\\u2019s \\u201cdependency on chemistry\\u201d and the best practices for conventional burn down
- \\xa0Rick\\u2019s humbling experiences experimenting with cover crops in the early days
- How planting multiple cash crops together could be the future of agriculture
- \\xa0Handling foxtail and other difficult weeds through regenerative practices\\xa0\\xa0
- The power of diversity and rotation in a no-tillage system
- Rick\\u2019s take on farm economics and how he\\xa0 is saving almost $1.7 million a year in inputs\\xa0