This Week's Lineup:

• Busch Light Farmer Cans Are Back!
• Planting Green and No-Tilling Corn with Compost Extract
• Cover Crops Help Increase Yields, Bolster Soil Health
• Using Cover Crops to Reduce Pesticide Use & Increase Soil Activity
• No-Till Legend Marion Calmer Celebrates Wedding

Understanding the nutrient content of cover crops can be challenging because it depends on many different factors.

Russell Hedrick’s tornado-proof program begins with a multi-species cover crop mix planted annually in the fall — up to 40 pounds per acre of cereals, 5 pounds of crimson clover and 3 pounds of vetch.

Cover Crop Strategies' Mike Lessiter will speak on the key elements of no-till history and why it’s a blueprint for future change. He will also examine 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.

Shawn Feikema grew tired of seeing his soils wash away in southwestern Minnesota, where they average about 29 inches of rain and 40 inches of snow annually.

This Week's Lineup:

• Planting Garlic into an Oat Cover Crop
• Planting a Summer Annual Cover Crop Requires Attention to Detail
• Growers Need to Work WITH Mother Nature not Against Her
• Jim Hershey’s Cover Crop Garden Experiment for Weed Suppression
• Farmers Mimic Mother Nature To Build Soils and Yield Success

Hosted by the Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC), the tour included a visit to Ryan and Christina Larson’s 1,000-acre strip-till and no-till operation in Garretson, S.D., near the southwestern Minnesota border.

In case you missed them, here are the items that have garnered the most interest from farmers in the past month, June 2025.

This Week's Lineup:

• Making Cover Crops & No-Till Work on Heavy, Poorly Drained Ground
• 12 Major Benefits of Cover Crops
• Comparing Benefits of Different Spring Grain Cover Crop Species
• Cover Crop Identification & Using the Field Guide
• Exploring the Nutrient Benefits of Cover Crops

There are several adjustments to consider when soybean planting is delayed to the second half of June through early July.