The Ensleys, Mike, Jack, and Jeremy, farm 2000 acres near Colfax, WA. Crops are winter wheat/ spring cereal/ spring legume or chemical fallow. Jack Ensley's two main passions are soil conservation and designing and building drills for direct seeding. Mike and Jack work with a high residue system, which requires some cultivation to avoid burning. Jack Ensley states, "My hope is that someday I'll be able to drive around this county in March and not see any gullies washing." Series made possible by grant from the USDA Western Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program, with additional funds from STEEP III (Solutions to Economic and Environmental Problems). 8 pages.
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Title
Ensley Farm Case Study: Direct Seeding in the Inland Northwest
Creators
Ellen B. Mallory (Author)
Tim Fiez (Author)
Roger Veseth (Author)
Dennis Roe (Author)
Donald John Wysocki (Author)
Academic Unit
Publications, WSU Extension
Series
PNW (Series); PNW0524
Publisher
Washington State University Extension; Pullman, Washington
Identifiers
99900502767701842
Copyright
In copyright ; openAccess ; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ ; http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess