Chris Teachout

Farmer

Shenandoah, Iowa

Realizing the Potential of Alternative Row Spacing and Biomass-Building Cover Crops

Chris Teachout will outline his progression of cover crop seeding approaches on his 1,850-acre farm in southwestern Iowa — from broadcasting the seed early on to offset planting covers into corn at V3-V4. Then he’ll share yield and biomass data from his on-farm trials last year planting corn at higher populations in 60-inch rows vs. 30-inch rows and seeding cover crops in between the wider rows.

The fifth-generation farmer will also have data to share from planting early soybeans into cereal rye on his farm.