Cover crops and no-till are a match made in heaven. Mackane Vogel had a chance to visit with Loysville, Pa. no-tiller and innovative no-till manufacturer Charlie Martin.

This Week's Lineup:

• Mycorrhizal Mix - 2025 Cover Crop Test Plot Tour
• How Cover Crops Build Healthy Soil for Organic Millet Farming
• Cover Crops to be a Big Focus at Farm Progress Show
• SPX Strip-Till Cultivator in Cover Crops
• “Our No-Till & Cover Crop Experiment Failed — Here’s Why I Think It Happened”

Biological products are one of the hottest topics in regenerative ag — but recent farmer-led trials from Practical Farmers of Iowa show the results aren’t as clear-cut as the hype suggests.

This Week's Lineup:

• Farmers Adopting Cover Crops More Likely to Adopt Other Conservation Practices
• Cover Crops Serve as Powerhouse for Sustainable Farming
• Winter Warrior Hairy Vetch Cover Crop Can Withstand Even the Harshest Winters
• Interseeding Cover Crops into Corn
• Soybean Yield Response to 60 Years of No-Till in Ohio

On this episode of the Cover Crop Strategies Podcast, come along on the road with Cover Crop Strategies Associate Editor, Mackane Vogel, as he travels to parts of Maryland and Pennsylvania to visit 3 different farmers who are working with cover crops in unique ways. 

I’m here at the Pennsylvania No-Till Alliance’s 20th Anniversary celebration on Jim Hershey’s farm, having a field day in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. As you can see we’ve had lots of equipment on display, lots of demos so far and lots of great speakers too. So, we’ve got a great Cover Crop Connection in store for you and we’re going to toss it off to that segment right now.

This Week's Lineup:

• One Farmer’s Take: Why Cover Crops Are Worth It
• On-Farm Demonstration Research - Interseeding Cover Crops in Broccoli
• Cutting Costs With Cover Crops and Manure Credits
• Cover Crops and Fall Residual Herbicides
• Seeding Cover Crops with Drones

Pennsylvania No-Till Alliance (PANTA) hosted a field day in July to celebrate their 20th year as an organization. The event featured several great speakers and equipment demos.

This Week's Lineup:

• How History Is Shaping the Future of No-Till Farming
• Mixed Results from No Till with Nitro Seasonal Cover Crop Cocktail
• How One Farmer Turned Cover Crops Into Profit
• The Economic and Ecological Aspects of Soil Health
• Field Crops Virtual Breakfast — Planting Cover Crops After Wheat

NACD's Annual Summer Meeting moves around from city to city each year but with our home court as the location for this year, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to get together with like-minded conservation ag-focused folks and see what the week had in store.