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In this episode we revisit some highlights of the most useful and important information shared through the first fourteen Field Check segments. You\\u2019re going to hear from experts like Dr. Abbey Wick, Dr. Lee Briese, Mark Huso, Jason Hanson, and Angie Johnson. These highlights cover topics ranging from cover crops, moisture management, crop rotation, salinity, farm safety and more. The overall message throughout is that there is no one right way to build healthier soils. It\\u2019s all about finding out what each individual field needs, and having the tools and expertise to execute on that.

\\u201cTons of ways to get cover crops in the system, whether you have the equipment to broadcast and that seems like the best fit for you time wise and logistics wise. Or if you have the time to put somebody into a tractor with a drill and seed the cover crop after harvest\\u2026 I think they\'re gonna improve the soil in many ways. Not only trafficability at harvest, but managing moisture at harvest and also again in the springtime at planting.\\u201d - Dr. Abbey Wick

Crop consultant Lee Briese says it\\u2019s all about assessing each individual field and designing the right system on a field-by-field basis. \\u201cYou make sure you\\u2019ve got the right tool for what you\\u2019re doing.\\u201d It\\u2019s this field by field approach that has led Mark Huso down the road of using the term \\u201cfield health\\u201d to reference not just soil health. He chooses to focus on overall long term productivity of a particular field. \\u201cA healthy field raises a good crop and there\\u2019s different ways to get there.\\u201d Mark and his farmer customers are finding success in diversifying crop rotations to manage issues such as saline areas. Jason Hanson also shares some of his thoughts on approaching the issue of salinity and consulting with peers to tackle similar obstacles.

You\'re gonna have to use the weapons you have in your arsenal, and that is going to be if you can get any surface drainage, any internal tiling done\\u2026. No one likes to split up fields and do that type of thing. I think more people are listening to that because other people are doing it. The best peers out there are other consultants, other farmers in particular that are actually doing these things. They just said, \\u201cThis isn\'t working. We gotta try something else.\\u201d And that\'s what you do. - Jason Hanson

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Soil Sense Podcast is hosted by Tim Hammerich of the Future of Agriculture Podcast.