What began as a method to control the spread of tumbleweed plants in the desert is now showing promise for stimulating agricultural crop seed germination to potentially increase crop yields.

Interseeding cover crops into growing corn may be a good solution for Indiana farmers. In this scenario, the cover crop is planted with corn during the growing season, rather than late in the year or after harvest.

In the second installment of No-Till Farmer’s Ask the Operator webinar series, 2023 Conservation Ag Operator Fellow Loran Steinlage of West Union, Iowa, welcomed a Ukrainian no-tiller named Konstantin, who shared the challenges of farming in wartime and what North American no-tillers should know about the ongoing war in Ukraine. The No-Till Passport series is brought to you by Martin Industries.

John Kempf, chief vision officer and founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture, hosted a webinar titled “Regenerative Tools for Your No-Till Toolbox – Bringing Life to Your Soil.” In the webinar, Kempf dives into the relationship between soil biology and no-till farm management, and shares the value of biological inputs and the changes they can bring to your soil. One key to understanding this topic is understanding the rhizophagy cycle, which can be summarized into 5 stages:

Our latest Ask the Operator question asks what herbicides to use when interseeding into corn.