As you can see, we are at the birthplace of the tillage radish. Yes, I'm on Steve Groff's farm in Holtwood, Pennsylvania. And speaking of which, we're going to toss it off to Steve right now for some cover crop action. 

“Hey everybody. Steve Groff here. It's been a while since I've been at the National No-Till Conference, but I'm coming back this year and I'm really excited about it. But why would I come back? I don't even grow any corn. I don't grow any soybeans. No wheat. None of the stuff that almost all you guys grow. But I'm really, really committed yet to no-till. Been no-tilling since 1982 and we're big into cover crops. As you can see right here, this is a freshly rolled down cover crop field that we're going to plant pumpkins into next week. So big into cover crops, big into no-till, but I'm more into specialty stuff. I'm going to show you here in a second some really cool things, but I grow a lot of pumpkins and squash and even no-till tomatoes. Things that most people don't even know they could be no-tilled.”

“So I remember, and you would have to ask Frank about this, because this is before summer you were born. I spoke at the National No-Till Conference in I think 1996 here and there and I talked about my no-till tomatoes back then. So it's really interesting to fast forward 30 years now. I'm still doing the same principles, same thing, but I have moved on to more specialty type crops.”

There we have it from Cedar Meadow Farm in Holtwood, Pennsylvania. That's all for this week's cover crop connection.