As your planter goes through the field, the turning disc openers can contact the bottom of the seed tube, which can eventually wear off the end of the seed tube. For good seed placement, inspect your seed tubes to make sure there's no wear at the bottom of them. The Planter Maintenance series is brought to you by Precision Planting.

For veteran no-tiller Mike Starkey, nothing beats learning from fellow farmers. He no-tills 2,500 acres of wheat, corn, soybeans and hay in Brownsburg, Ind., with his son, his nephew and his nephew’s son.

Environmental Defense Fund and the University of Minnesota’s Center for Farm Financial Management have partnered to establish a new financial data gathering process for cover crops within the FINBIN database, the largest publicly available farm financial database and benchmarking service in the country.  

This fall, NRCS encourages America’s agricultural producers to keep the stubble and give their farm a more rugged, natural look with No-Till November.