Incorporating cover crops into strip-till has delivered both benefits and challenges during the 8 years Nickerson, Neb., farmer Brent Willnerd has used them on both seed corn and commercial crops. He discusses the transition from aerial seeding to drilling in varieties included cereal rye, radishes and rye.
Treating Your Cover Crop Like a Cash Crop
No-Till Innovator and Williamsport, Ind., no-tiller Rick Clark knows just how important it is to manage your cover crops as if they were your cash crops. Let’s take a listen to Clark’s advice about the nutrient sequestration powers of cereal rye, and the positive and negative impact it could have on weeds and corn.
