The study also found that each legume type has similar weed suppression regardless of the seeding rate. However, some of the legumes were better at suppressing weeds.

James Houghton, an English dairy farmer, is interseeding field beans in corn with the goal of enhancing the protein content of feed and reducing his fertilizer costs.

In this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by the Pluribus Lite from Dawn Equipment, Oneida, Ill., neighbors Andrew Bowman and Charles Martin explain their experiment with strip-tilling sweet corn into Kura clover, the benefits of strip-tilling into a living mulch, how to make a clover polyculture work for cash crops and much more.

Brian Ryberg, the 2022 Strip-Till Innovator Award winner, teaches farmers across the U.S. about the benefits of strip-till and cover crops. 

Talk to any strip-tiller, and they’ll give you a long list of benefits of switching to strip-till. They’re doing more with less by slashing their inputs and fuel costs, improving their soil health and water infiltration, and quite possibly gaining yield.