Entries by NCAT IT

Establishing a Wine Cap Mushroom Bed

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Wine cap mushrooms can be grown in layers of straw and wood chips and are one of several easy-to-grow mushrooms to add to your farm enterprise. Join NCAT’s Nina Prater […]

Wine Cap Mushroom Production: Getting Started

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By Nina Prater, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Last year, the NCAT Southeast office partnered with the University of Missouri’s Agroforestry Center to host a one-day mushroom cultivation workshop in Fayetteville, […]

Livestock Integration with Crops: A Summary

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Montana State University’s three-year research project, “Impacts of Integrating Livestock into Cropping Systems on Soil Health and Crop Production,” has uncovered some interesting findings. Funded by Western Sustainable Agriculture Research […]

Episode 152. Starting a Farm

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Today’s episode of Voices from the Field is the first in an occasional series from Rockiell Woods, Director of NCAT’s Gulf States Regional Office in Jackson, Mississippi, and Bill Evans, […]

Episode 151. Erosion Control and Mitigation

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In today’s episode of Voices from the Field, we hear from Kara Kroeger, Sustainable Agriculture specialist at NCAT’s Southwest Regional Office in San Antonio, Texas. She interviews Mollie Walton, Land […]

Improving Seed Viability and Germination

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Vegetable growers are hustling to start seeds in order to have transplants ready to go in to the ground once the soil has warmed up and dried out.
By Andy Pressman
NCAT Northeast Regional Director

Mobile Chicken Coop Designs

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Mobile coops help chickens contribute to soil fertility on the farm while keeping them safe from predators. In this video, NCAT program specialist Tracy Mumma describes the benefits and drawbacks […]

How to Castrate and Ear Tag Goats

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Managing a herd of goats means that some will have to be castrated. In this video, NCAT specialist Nina Prater and her husband, Jeremy, show the “banding” method of castration, […]