Cover Crop Planting & Termination Best Practices
In our latest edition of the No-Till Farmer Newsletter, you may have seen our No-Till Innovator Special Report which includes tips and advice from expert no-tillers, agronomists and researchers.

NAME: Curtis Furr
LOCATION: Albemarle, N.C.
YEARS NO-TILLING: 45
ACRES: 1,000
CROPS: Corn, soybeans, cotton, popcorn, winter wheat and cereal rye cover-crop seed
My father and grandfather started experimenting with no-till in the late 1960s with the primary goal of stopping erosion. The steep hills we farm would simply wash away when you worked them up.

They started with an old John Deere Grassland drill to sow new ground. It had shovels…