Cows and cover crops are a winning combination for Kansas no-tillers Chad and Danny Simmelink.
No-tillers since 2003, the father-and-son team added cover crops to their rotation 3 years later and found covers not only build soil organic matter and reduce erosion, but make an excellent feed source for their bred-heifer program.
Danny Simmelink was a believer in minimum tillage well before the family started no-tilling. He and his father used a “v-blade” for several…