Adam Chappell

Grower

Cotton Plant, Ark.

Livestock: The Final Piece of the Cover Crop, Soil Health Puzzle

Adam Chappell, Cotton Plant, Ark., is a fourth-generation grower who has raised cotton, corn, soybeans and rice on 9,000 acres since 2005. Cover crops including cereal rye, black oats, daikon radish, vetch, peas and clover are grown on 8,000 of those acres, and Chappell, along with his brother, uses a no-till system.

Chappell’s presentation will discuss how he has grazed cattle and sheep on covers, grazing them during the winter and selling them in the spring. The manure left behind feeds soil microbes, helping build soil organic matter.