On-Farm Trials Podcast with the PNW Farmers' Network PNW Farmers' Network

This episode of the On-Farm Trials podcast features Clint Zenner of Zenner Family
Farms in Genesse, ID and his collaboration as a PI on the PNW cover crops project
alongside Kendall Kahl of the University of Idaho. A conversation with them highlights
years of working together that has resulted in a wealth of knowledge on cover crops,
cows, and even earth worms! Listen to their conversation about how they are working
together to ask and answer important soil health and cropping systems innovation for
the farm and region with their on-farm trials.

This episode of the On-Farm Trials podcast features Clint Zenner of Zenner Family
Farms in Genesse, ID and his collaboration as a PI on the PNW cover crops project
alongside Kendall Kahl of the University of Idaho. A conversation with them highlights
years of working together that has resulted in a wealth of knowledge on cover crops,
cows, and even earth worms! Listen to their conversation about how they are working
together to ask and answer important soil health and cropping systems innovation for
the farm and region with their on-farm trials.

The interviews compiled for another special episode Stories from the Field feature Erin Ruhel
and Doug Schuster of Westfield Properties in St. John, Washington, Frank Wolfe of Lester
Wolfe Farms talking with Subodh Adhikari of the University of Idaho in Uniontown, Washington
and Derek Schafer of Schafer Farm and Ranch in Lind, Washington. If you want to hear more
from any of these guests you can find their full length interviews in the On-Farm Trials podcast
archives.

Our guest for this episode is Russ Zenner, a retired farmer from Genesee, Idaho. Listen to the
conversation to hear him describe the trials from the early days of Direct Seeding in the region,
value-added and identity-preserved marketing, and share his thoughts on climate change and
goats, working with research and conservation partners, and the importance of life-long
learning.

In this episode we hear from Doug Schuester and his daughter Erin Ruehl outside of St. John,
WA - as they talk about their on-farm trials in remediating eroded hilltops with compost and
cover crops, growing cows and canola, and some farm succession planning.

This episode of on-farm trials features Frank Wolf of Lester Wolf farms outside of Uniontown,
Washington, and his collaboration as a PI on the PNW cover crops project alongside Subodh
Adhikari of the University of Idaho. A conversation with them highlights years of working
together that has resulted in these collaborative on-farm cover crop trials, how they are working
together to look at various mixes, get them seeded, and what and how data is being collected to
measure impact on subsequent crops, soil, weeds, and insects to create a regional
decision-making tool based on their findings.