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.

Pillars of No-Till Innovator’s system include patterned tile, cutting-edge planter attachments, spoon-fed nitrogen, thermal imagery and diverse cover crop mixes.

Our latest Ask the Operator question asks if it's better to stagger closing wheels on a no-till planter or run them next to each other.

Our latest Ask the Operator question asks what is the right setting for hydraulic down pressure on a no-till planter.

Our latest Ask the Operator question asks what cover crop to seed into standing corn around V5 that will be going to soybeans.

Careful consideration of herbicide management for annual ryegrass is needed, particularly given concerns about its potential to become an established and persistent volunteer weed problem, says Penn State University. Glyphosate has significantly better activity on annual ryegrass than paraquat and should be used as the base product.