If we’re talking cover crops, I could keep a person up all night. Cover crops are truly amazing in what they can accomplish, and the number of different hats they can wear on the farm.

Our first no-till planter came in on a truck in pieces. It was just iron frames, planter boxes and bits and parts.

Cover cropping may be a modern buzz term, but it’s a concept I first witnessed back in the late 1940s. I’m the fifth generation of my family to farm both sides of the Mason-Dixon line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, and was fortunate enough to watch both my father and grandfather work the land.

No-till has definitely changed the landscape of our farm over the years, but it was a change in the farms around us in the late 1980s that gave us the push into no-till.

We live on the edge with moisture here in dried-up northeastern Colorado.

"No-Till fascinates me. It appeals to the part of my personality that likes a challenge."

Corn isn't king on our farm, even if it is selling for $8 per bushel. I run a 100-cow dairy along with my wife, Dianne, and our two children.

No-tilling was a strategy I picked up from my father, but it took me nearly 25 years before I finally went 100% no-till.

No-till is a whole lot more than planter modification.