Cover Crop Strategies editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at various aspects of our great agricultural industry. Here is our favorite content from the past week:

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Harvesting No-Till Wheat & Planting Cover Crops in Cold Climates

In this video, fourth generation producers, Kari Olson, Nicole Strafelda and their dad Rob Olson demonstrate how they harvest wheat and plant cover crops on their farm in Northwestern Minnesota. Travis Doeden, Soil Conservationist with NRCS, joins them as they discuss the benefits and the challenges of no-till farming with cover crops on their 2,300 acres of corn, wheat and soybeans.

Best Practices & Tips for Terminating Cover Crops

Brett Israel, Ontario farmer and organic grower, explains how he uses cover crops on his farm and how taking a fall cut of forage before terminating cover crops can result in a great seed bed.

No-Tiller Shares Video of Unique Instrument Tied Directly to Cover Crops & Agriculture

In this video, shared by Holtwood, Pa., no-tiller and cover crop expert Steve Groff, check out this band that’s using guitars made from hemp at the NoCo Hemp Expo in Colorado.

Pre-Planting Clinic Focuses on Cover Crop & No-Till Management Practices

Ralph Weninger of Rubicon, Wis., shared his cover crop and no-till best practices at a recent pre-planting clinic. The event also featured info about cover crop drone seeding as well as a presentation by weed scientist Rodrigo Werle.

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Breaking Barriers in the World of Agriculture

This week marked the 77th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's debut, which broke Major League Baseball’s race-barrier. In this No-Till Farmer history article, Lessiter Media President Mike Lessiter writes about the barrier-breaker in no-till's history & why it was important that a special individual, Harry Young, was to be the first to try it on commercial farmland — and share it.

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In 1962, Harry M. Young Jr. became the first farmer to no-till on commercial ground. He didn’t anticipate how no-till (a research practice up until that time) would grow. “His training as an ag economist, though, told him it would save labor, fuel, machinery and soil, and it was well worth trying,” says his son, John Young, who contributed to the story below. Photos by: John Harvey and Frank Lessiter

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