Levi Garchar

Volunteer wheat on fallow, 2015.

• Year Two Testing Completed 
• Year Three Testing Completed

• Summer fallow with volunteer wheat.
• Winter fallow.

• Plant spring cover crop mix.
• Terminate cover crop in July.
• Plant fall cover crop mix (winter kills in winter).

• Summer fallow (beans planned but too dry to plant).
• Plant Fall cover crop (species to overwinter into Spring 2018).
• Terminate cover crop Summer 2018.

As a young farmer, Levi Garchar has been growing winter wheat, dry beans and sunflowers on approximately 1400 acres.  In 2011, he experimented with peas as a cover crop.

Levi selects cover crop mixtures for testing on his farm in collaboration with the project team. He assists with project planning and presentations for outreach activities.