Farmers across the U.S. continue to find success with cover cropping and planting green, according to the 2023 Cover Crops Operational Practices Survey
About 70% of the farmers who took Cover Crop Strategies’ 2023 survey farm in the Corn Belt, making it the most common geography. The vast majority of respondents from all regions — 91.7% — use no-tillage. Conventional tillage was the second most popular tillage type at 21.3%.
Across all geographies, 68% of…
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Today we’re talking with Jeff Schluckbier, who grows corn, sugar beets and wheat in Tuscola County, Mich. Jeff uses sunflowers, radish, clover, oats, cereal rye and Austrian winter peas. He says cover crops are paying off big time in his 7,500-acre operation, especially during heavy rainfall events.
