For this episode of the No-Till Farmer Influencers & Innovators Podcast, brought to you by SOURCE® from Sound Agriculture, editor Frank Lessiter shares a recent episode of the Soil Sense Podcast, created by Farmers for Soil Health, featuring Nancy Kavazanjian.

Ricky Wiggins, a conservation ag and no-till activist, received the Service to Agriculture Award by the Alabama Farmers Federation after a decades long career in service to others.

The positives of planting cover crops include supporting the local environment and making crops more productive and climate-resilient. Thanks to cover crops, no-till and crop rotation, Willott says his farm still had a fairly good harvest despite this year’s drought, extreme heat and flooding.