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Going 'Gung-Hoe.’ Tom Cotter built this 16-row, 40-foot-wide machine out of an old Gandy Orbit-Air seeder and two 8-row rotary hoes to interseed cover crops into standing corn at the V4-V6 stage. “The whole thing cost me less than $4,000,” says Cotter. “It’s cheap, easy and versatile.”

Getting Out of the Rut with No-Tilling, Cover Crop Interseeding, Weed Suppression

Tom Cotter is boosting the value of his soils in the heart of the Corn Belt by putting the iron away and keeping his fields covered and active year round.

It’s easy to get stuck in a rut with farming, but that’s a major reason Tom Cotter did the opposite of that and turned to no-tilling and interseeding cover crops to rejuvenate his farm.

The system he’s developed over time let him increase yields, generate more income from the same amount of land and improve the quality and health of his soils, livestock and crops in a geography that generates some challenges to no-till success.

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