While drilling is one of the best ways to seed and establish cover crops, it sometimes means waiting too long to seed corn and soybean acres.
So Celina, Ohio, strip-tiller and no-tiller Matt VanTilburg relies on a custom-built, high-clearance seeder — the farm’s second “Kover Kroper” machine that was built and deployed in 2011.
The first machine, rigged up in 2010 on a high-clearance sprayer, had five spinners on a 90-foot boom. It was easy…
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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.
