Dan Brick, of Brickstead Dairy in Brown County, Wis., discusses a side-by-side field comparison of the growth in fall-planted cover crops with and without a solid manure application.

At Brickstead Dairy in Greenleaf, Wis., the focus is on tomorrow as much as it is on today. Gene Brick and his son Dan, fourth- and fifth-generation no-till farmers, take seriously their roles as caretakers of the soil. Dan uses cover crops to protect the soil and surrounding streams and rivers.