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Rick Matt Shares Preview of Upcoming National Cover Crop Summit Presentation

By Mackane Vogel posted on January 30, 2026 | Posted in Grazing, Investing in Regenerative Ag

Iowa no-tiller Rick Matt will be presenting at this year's National Cover Crop Summit. In this video, he gives a short preview of what audience members can learn from his session titled "Covers & Critters: Integrating Livestock on Summer Annuals."

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No-Tiller with Perfect NNTC Attendance Shares Cover Crop Lessons Learned

By Mackane Vogel posted on January 16, 2026 | Posted in Economics, Investing in Regenerative Ag

You can count on one hand the number of people who have attended each and every single one of our now 34 National No-Tillage Conferences. Cole Camp, Mo., no-tiller Bryan Von Holten is one of them and I had a chance to catch up with him in between sessions last week in St. Louis.

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Cover Crop Education at National No-Tillage Conference

By Mackane Vogel posted on December 18, 2025 | Posted in Economics, Investing in Regenerative Ag

Cover crops are sure to be a hot topic at this year’s National No-Tillage Conference. So here’s Minnesota no-tiller and cover cropper Tom Cotter to give a brief preview about his presentation at the conference, plus why he finds the event so valuable as an attendee.

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A Father-Son Cover Crop Business

By Mackane Vogel posted on December 6, 2025 | Posted in Economics

Many of you are familiar with Iowa no-tiller and Executive Director of the Conservation Technology Information Center, Ryan Heiniger. Recently I had a chance to chat with Ryan and his son Matt - who is currently a senior in high school — about the new cover crop business they started this summer called Clear Water Cover Crops.

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AGRITECHNICA No-Till Tech Spotlight: Weed-It

By Mackane Vogel posted on November 21, 2025 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Mackane Vogel here in Hanover, Germany at Agritechnica, where there is lots of ag technology and innovation on display. Why don't we send it off to the Cover Crop Connection segment right now and see what cover crop technology we have going on here in Germany?

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Cover Crops & Autonomy — Don’t Lose the Plot

By Mackane Vogel posted on November 7, 2025 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Autonomy is always one of the biggest topics talked about here at FIRA USA. Earlier there was a panel where the topic of cover crops came up in terms of autonomy and let’s take a listen on why it might be important to just pay a little more attention to cover crops when you’re dealing with AI or autonomous farm equipment.

Historic Flooding No Match for Cereal Rye & Strip-Till

By Noah Newman posted on October 27, 2025 | Posted in Soil Health

Back in August, we covered a historic storm that dumped a foot of rain on the Milwaukee area in less than a day. Basse’s Farms in Colgate, Wis., was right in the middle of it.

Are You Delaying Corn Harvest to Cut Down on Drying Costs?

By Noah Newman posted on October 26, 2025

With harvest season in full swing, we asked our audience — Given the low corn prices, are you leaving corn in the field longer to dry so your drying costs aren’t as high? If so, are you going to plant covers crops later or just skip them?

PCM Dives into Conservation Economics

By Noah Newman posted on October 21, 2025 | Posted in Economics

Let’s kick things off with some new economic data from the Precision Conservation Management program in Illinois. They’re comparing all the field passes in no-till, strip-till and multi-pass systems to see which one gives farmers the most bang for their buck.

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Treating Your Cover Crop Like a Cash Crop

By Mackane Vogel posted on October 17, 2025 | Posted in Seeding Practices

No-Till Innovator and Williamsport, Ind., no-tiller Rick Clark knows just how important it is to manage your cover crops as if they were your cash crops. Let’s take a listen to Cark’s advice about the nutrient sequestration powers of cereal rye, and the positive and negative impact it could have on weeds and corn.