Speaking of that, in our Video of the Week, No-Till Legend Ray McCormick shares a valuable piece of information he picked up at the conference a few years ago that influenced how he seeds cover crops with the combine. 

“This is why you want to go to the No-Till Conference. I’m sitting there and Marion Calmer is talking about if your fodder is going through the combine, you’re not picking the corn correctly. All of this should go through your head between the snapping rollers. You see farmers picking corn and there’s all this material coming out their chopper, and you drive behind me and it’s just flinging a leaf here and there, it’s not hardly throwing anything out of the chopper. It makes it easier for the corn to fall through but it also doesn’t dislodge all this. All your fodder material ought to go through the corn head not the combine.”

“I’m lying in bed in night, and thinking we can’t drill, it’s taking up my son, it’s during harvest and it’s chopping up the tires on it. I kept think there’s got to be a way to do it in one pass with the combine. I’m thinking about putting it here, putting it there, doing all different kinds of things. Then suddenly form Marion Calmer at the No-Till Conference, he’s saying the fodder needs to go down through the head. And I went bingo. We’ll run the air tubes to right in front of the snapper rollers so as all this goes through the snapper roller it’s mulching on top of the seed.”

Watch the full version of this episode of Conservation Ag Update.