- Experiment with new ideas on corn and soybean crops. Cotton is too costly of a crop to try new things on first.
- Play around with small acreage at first rather than the entire farm.
- Use comparison plots to conduct your own research and development (R&D).
- Manage tall cover crops by rolling them to the ground. This makes planting easier.
- Take advantage of Natural Resource Conservation Service conservation programs.
- Make planting of cover crops a priority. Get them seeded as soon as possible after a field is harvested. Then let it grow until you are ready to plant.
An Accidental Cover Crop Experiment
Georgetown, Del., no-tiller Jay Baxter was planning on conducting a cover crop experiment with oats, but when Mother Nature got in the way, he quickly pivoted to another idea for a different type of cover crop experiment.
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