Early Seeding Key to Controlling Nutrient Loss with Cover Crops

July 13, 2022 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health

Planting cover crops early helps them hold onto more excess nutrients. That’s good news for the polluted Chesapeake Bay.

[Video] No-Till, Cover Crops, Buffer Zones Help Protect Chesapeake Watershed

October 23, 2017 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Chip Bowling, Newburg, Md., is past-president of the Maryland Grain Producers Assn. He no-tills and uses cover crops and buffer zones on 1,600 acres of corn, soybeans and wheat to prevent soil erosion into the Chesapeake Bay watershed. For more detailed information on Chip, please see "What I've Learned from No-Till Farming" article in the October 2017 issue of No-Till Farmer.

What I've Learned From No-Tilling: Rising Up to the No-Till Challenge

Holding true to no-till practices when faced with production hiccups keeps Lyle Tabb creative and sharp in his crop production game.

August 21, 2015 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Farming in the Shenandoah Valley in West Virginia has its fair share of challenges. Bordered by the Blue Ridge Mountains to the east and by the eastern front of the ridge-and-valley Appalachians to the west, the valley is beautiful, but rocky.

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Ray McCormick’s Conservation Buffer

Earlier this week we paid another visit to this year’s Conservation Ag Operator Fellow, Ray McCormick in Vincennes, Ind., and one thing about Ray is that even when it’s the “off season,” he’s still thinking ahead for next season.

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