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Cover Crops Maximize Yield for Pennsylvania No-Tiller

By Noah Newman posted on July 8, 2024 | Posted in Cover Crops, Nutrient Management

Annville, Pa., no-tiller Zach Alger is a big believer in the benefits of cover crops. His 318-bushel corn yield was good enough for first place in the state’s 2023 NCGA Corn Yield Contest. Alger says planting conditions across his farm have improved quite a bit since he started using wheat as a cover crop about 10 years ago.

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[Podcast] Joel Myers on the Rise of No-Till Pennsylvania

For this episode of the No-Till Farmer Influencers & Innovators podcast, brought to you by The Andersons, podcast focuses on the early days of no-till in the keystone state. Joel Meyers is nearing retirement now, but for 20 years as the NRCS State Agronomist for Pennsylvania, he helped to advocate no-tillage for the gently rolling hills and steeper slopes in Northern Appalachia.

By Brian O'Connor and Frank Lessiter posted on June 3, 2022 | Posted in Soil Health

For this episode of the No-Till Farmer Influencers & Innovators podcast, brought to you by The Andersons, podcast focuses on the early days of no-till in the keystone state. Joel Meyers is nearing retirement now, but for 20 years as the NRCS State Agronomist for Pennsylvania, he helped to advocate no-tillage for the gently rolling hills and steeper slopes in Northern Appalachia.

[Podcast] Planting Green with No-Till and Cover Crops: A Year-Round Ecological System

In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Montag Manufacturing, we’ll hear from Maryland farmer Trey Hill as he shares his thoughts on the ecology of farming and talking about what he’s doing with cover crops, how he incorporated planting green into his operation, yield results he’s been seeing, and more.

By Julia Gerlach posted on June 12, 2019 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Cover Crops

In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Montag Manufacturing, we’ll hear from Maryland farmer Trey Hill as he shares his thoughts on the ecology of farming, what he’s doing with cover crops, how he incorporated planting green into his operation, yield results he’s been seeing, and more.

Precise Nutrient, Cover Crop Use Cleans Up Chesapeake

Trey Hill shares what he’s learned from trying to reduce nitrogen leaching, managing inputs and battling slugs on his 10,000 no-till acres.

By Ian Gronau posted on July 30, 2016 | Posted in Cover Crops, Nutrient Management

Although Trey Hill has been farming around 10,000 acres in Rock Hall, Md., his whole life, he’s quick to mention that he’s more a student than a teacher. It’s this instinct that leads him to perpetually tweak his nitrogen (N) management and cover-crop program, forever in search of more conservative and efficient techniques for the fourth generation family-run Harborview Farms.

Building No-Till Profits and Protecting the Environment

Spoon-fed nutrients, tramlines and precise seeding machines serve as a profitable combination for Warsaw, Va., no-tiller Craig Brann.

By John Dobberstein posted on November 14, 2015 | Posted in Residue Management, Nutrient Management, Precision Agriculture

Surrounded by two major rivers and the Chesapeake Bay watershed, Craig Brann likes to say he “farms on a sandbar” in eastern Virginia.

Federal Judge Upholds EPA's Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Plan

September 19, 2013 | Posted in Water Management

Source: Associated Press

A federal judge rejected a bid by farm industry groups to block federal and state pollution limits designed to improve the health of the Chesapeake Bay by more tightly regulating wastewater treatment, construction along waterways and agricultural runoff.

Making ‘Never-Till’ Corn Yields That Are Fit For A King

Cover crops, split nitrogen, fungicide applications and higher organic matter are helping Rigdon Farms make a hard run at 300-bushel corn.

By John Dobberstein posted on August 1, 2013 | Posted in Crop Protection, Nutrient Management

Three decades of no-till, or “never till” as John Rigdon calls it, is certainly long enough to establish a tradition at Rigdon Farms, but that’s only part of the story.

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Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Rules Anger Farmers

September 1, 2012 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Water Management

More salvos are being fired in Maryland as efforts to clean up nutrient loading in the Chesapeake Bay region move forward.

NRCS: 88% Of Chesapeake Bay Cropland In Conservation Tillage

By John Dobberstein posted on March 15, 2011 | Posted in Water Management

It appears no-till is already playing a major role in cleaning up Chesapeake Bay as the government and farm groups continue their debate on how to reduce nutrient and sediment runoff into the massive watershed.

[Video] Steve Groff's No-Till, Cover-Crop Operation Featured in IMAX Production

March 8, 2011 | Posted in Cover Crops

Source: Cover Crop Solutions

Steve Groff's No-Till, Cover-Crop Operation Featured In IMAX Production About Chesepeake Bay

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Cover Crops Maximize Yield for Pennsylvania No-Tiller

[Podcast] Joel Myers on the Rise of No-Till Pennsylvania

[Podcast] Planting Green with No-Till and Cover Crops: A Year-Round Ecological System

Precise Nutrient, Cover Crop Use Cleans Up Chesapeake

Building No-Till Profits and Protecting the Environment

Federal Judge Upholds EPA's Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Plan

Making ‘Never-Till’ Corn Yields That Are Fit For A King

Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Rules Anger Farmers

NRCS: 88% Of Chesapeake Bay Cropland In Conservation Tillage

[Video] Steve Groff's No-Till, Cover-Crop Operation Featured in IMAX Production

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