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Survey: Cover Crops Make No-Till Easier for Most Farmers

Mackane Vogel
January 26, 2024

In 2023, the Conservation Technology Innovation Center (CTIC) released results from its annual National Cover Crop Survey. The 83-page report details answers to many questions regarding cover crops, no-till and other conservation ag practices. One question dove deeper into the connections between cover crop use and no-till, exploring common anecdotal reports that many no-tillers use cover crops to mitigate yield dips associated with the early years of no-till. 

A total of 154 growers (roughly 70%) said cover crops made the transition to no-till easier, while 45 growers (roughly 20%) answered that cover crops neither helped nor harmed their ability to implement no-till on their farm operation. Only 20 growers (roughly 10%) felt that cover crops made it more difficult for them to transition to no-till. In all, 219 respondents weighed in on whether or not cover crops made it easier to transition to no-till.

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Mackane Vogel

Mackane Vogel is the Associate Editor of Farm Equipment, No-Till Farmer, Cover Crop Strategies and other Lessiter Media publications. An avid writer for the last 10 years, he previously served as the editorial intern for 88Nine Radio Milwaukee and also wrote for several different sports journalism outlets before joining the Lessiter Media team in 2022. Mackane is a 2020 journalism graduate of Marquette University.

Contact: mvogel@lesspub.com