It may take some time, but cover crops combined with 4R nitrogen fertilizer management can reduce nitrate loads in water and improve water quality, according to research from Purdue and Illinois State Universities.

Recently a no-tiller commented on a no-till history article about stripper headers and said “stripper headers make our no-till program work without having to plant covers. We are straight wheat on wheat and run cattle every year. We couldn't do it without the stripper header!”

Alec Amundson and a group of five other cooperators decided to test if later maturing soybeans could offset some of the yield decline seen when planting green and delaying cover crop termination.