My question today is, if cover crops are so good, why don’t more farmers like them?

When I came back to our Haxtun, Colo., farm in 2016, my dad agreed to continue doing the bookkeeping if I did the physical labor. Now that we raise 12 or more crops per year, direct market farm products and so much more, he regularly complains he got the short end of the stick. But he complains with a smile.

Nathan Brause thinks he should have listened to his forebears. The Sulphur Springs, Ohio, no-tiller inherited a farm that featured a three-crop rotation of corn, soybeans and wheat that had been in no-till when his grandpa farmed the land.