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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: October 9, 2026

By Kendra Downing posted on October 9, 2026

This Week's Lineup:

Can We Drill the Rye Before the Rain?
Learning From Local Farmers — Sharing Advice and Experiences
Making the Most of Every Acre — Cover Crops, Cattle and Goats
What Does Cover Crop Carbon Actually Cost and Pay?
Seeding Cover Crops on a Vegetable Farm

This Week

Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: October 2, 2026

By Kendra Downing posted on October 2, 2026

This Week's Lineup:

Project 101: Planting a World Record Cover Crop
Drone Seeding Trial
Cover Crop Financial Incentives and Managing Risk
Creating a Future for Farmers Through Cover Crops
Boosting the Bottom Line by Grazing Cover Crops

Strip-Tillage Product Roundup 2026

Check out the latest strip-tillage innovations from some of the industry's leading suppliers.

June 24, 2026 | Posted in Product Innovations & Introductions

Check out the latest strip-tillage innovations from some of the industry's leading suppliers.

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Leading With Experience: Nitrate Reduction Strategies

By Martha Mintz posted on April 25, 2026 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health

For me, adoption of some conservation practices took a little nudge from nature.

Cover Crop Impact: Forty Years of Less Tillage, More Plants

By Martha Mintz posted on March 28, 2026 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health

Tiling and cover crops help remediate unproductive saline seeps.

Mike Lessiter Luncheon Keynote Presentation from 2025 NACD Summer Meeting

July 28, 2025 | Posted in Investing in Regenerative Ag, Seeding Practices, Soil Health

Cover Crop Strategies' Mike Lessiter spoke on the key elements of no-till history and why it’s a blueprint for future change. He also examined critical success factors needed to sustain and grow the practices, and the key role of conservation districts in making successful transitions and adoption a reality.

Learn From Conservation Leaders at NACD Summer Meeting

June 19, 2025

Cover Crop Strategies' Mike Lessiter is the Luncheon keynote speaker at this year's event.

International No-Till, Strip-Till and Cover Crops Research Journal – September 2024

Each month, the conservation ag group at Cornell University offers an analysis of the latest scientific papers dealing with conservation agriculture research from around the world. For this on-going web series, our editors will be selecting several research papers from the Cornell list that will be of special interest to North American no-tillers, strip-tillers and cover croppers.

By Frank Lessiter posted on September 11, 2024 | Posted in Soil Health

In this edition:

Earthworms as Soil Health Indicators in No-Tillage Agroecosystems
No-Till Farming and Climate Change Mitigation: Lessons Learnt from Long-Term No-Till Experiments and Future Perspectives (Chapter 2)
The Impact of ‘T’-shaped Furrow Opener of No-Tillage Seeder on Straw and Soil Based on Discrete Element Method
Characterization of Soil Pores in Strip-Tilled and Conventionally-Tilled Soil Using X-ray Computed Tomography
Critical Review of the Impact of Cover Crops on Soil Properties
Understanding Farmers’ Adoption of Conservation Tillage in South Dakota: A Modified Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior