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Successfully Working Unforgiving Soils with Strip-till and Cover Crops

Shifting to strip-till, banded fertilizer and cover cropping has led Missouri farmer Gary Wolf to increase yields in tough soils.
By Ian Gronau posted on January 12, 2016 | Posted in Cover Crops
Gary Wolf likes to look for cues in the environment to help guide his farming practices. He knew it was time to start thinking seriously about water conservation practices when armadillos started showing up for the first time ever on his 500-acre farm near Verona, Mo.
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NWF Seeking Growers for Cover Crop Outreach

December 14, 2015 | Posted in Cover Crops
The National Wildlife Federation is accepting applications for farmers and conservation professionals to conduct outreach to promote cover crops and provide region-specific information and farming knowledge to farmers and crop advisers.
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Refining Residue Management and Cover Crops in a Strip-Till System

The Sass family from Streator, Ill., are veteran strip-tillers, but adding cover crops and more sophisticated residue management practices have further improved their productivity.
By Ian Gronau posted on October 27, 2015 | Posted in Cover Crops
With the better part of two decades of strip-tilling under their belts, the Sass family in Streator, Ill., could be considered veterans of the practice. On their 2,600-acre farm, many of the methods they employ are tried and true, but they have a flair for innovation and are constantly running tests to build upon their best practices.
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No-Tiller Plants Entire Corn Crop with Driverless Tractor

No-Tiller Plants Entire Corn Crop with Driverless Tractor

On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Titan International, we catch up with young Kentucky no-tiller Quint Pottinger to see how he autonomously planted his entire crop in 2026. Senior editor John Dobberstein checks in from the CTIC Conservation in Action Tour in Scotland Neck, N.C., where no-tiller Zeb Winslow III talks about his multi-species cover crop program.

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