No-Till Living Legend and 2024 Conservation Ag Operator Fellow Ray McCormick is reaping some big-time benefits from cover crops on his southern Indiana farm, especially in a wet spring.

While western farmers pray for rain, heavy spring rains in Minnesota have forced some farmers away from no-till to combat wet conditions. That includes Minnesota Corn Growers President Brian Biegler, who farms near Lake Wilson, Minn.

Determining the amount of supplemental nitrogen, if any, that is needed after saturated soil conditions is a difficult question to answer. Soil conditions such as texture, temperature, and length of saturation plus nitrogen application factors timing, placement, source, inhibitors used along with the growth stage of corn which impacts the amount of N already taken up, affect the decision to apply additional N.