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Shane Maddock

Shane Maddock

Fourth-generation North Dakota rancher who runs Maddock Ranch near Maddock, ND, practicing holistic "High Energy Grazing" and regenerative soil-health management.

Sep 21, 2026

7:32
Are you doing anything on the cover crop side as well?
7:37
The first couple of years, I got really heavy in the cover crop.
7:40
I did multi-species cover crops where I'd have upwards to 20 different species in a cover crop.
7:49
Then for several years, I did that for two or three years right away on the farm ground.
7:56
And then I went back and I seeded it all into a grass, perennial grass and legume.
8:04
and I put a fence around everything, I put water tanks in all my crop ground, and I was done farming.
8:10
I wasn't gonna farm, I was gonna raise cattle, and that's how I was gonna make my living, and did all that, got all my fences put up, got all my water lines and the tanks put in, and I was raising yearlings on my farm ground, and it was working okay and stuff, but just recently we decided that we wanted to orientate that ground and get it back into a crop rotation not every year but maybe farm it for two or three years and then put it back into a subject called sob based rotation get it back into a perennial grass for two or three years and then take it out and kind of kind of doing that but for the first two three years i did a lot of cover cropping and now We're getting back into cover cropping with, we're going to do some rye and some winter peas this fall and some of these crop grounds that we're doing.
13:06
So tell me a little bit more about what went into planning that and what those systems look like.

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