Top 5 Conservation Ag Takeaways from Farm Progress Show 2024

By Mackane Vogel posted on September 3, 2024 | Posted in Product Innovations & Introductions

The 2024 Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa was filled with lots of new gadgets and innovations in the world of cover crops, no-till and all things conservation ag. Here are just a few of the most exciting things our editors saw while at the show.

OGRAIN Discussion: Should You be Using Row Cleaners on Your Planter?

February 6, 2023 | Posted in Seeding Practices

A discussion in the Organic Grain Resource and Information Network (OGRAIN) email group started with a question about interseeeding clover into soybeans. Several no-tillers proceeded to discuss the topic and how timing of planting could dramatically affect the outcome.

Precision Planting Unveils New Row Cleaner

August 2, 2021

Precision Planting has released a new frame-mounted row cleaner product, Reveal, for nationwide commercial availability through its Premier Dealer network.

Swapping ‘Jugs’ for Cover Crops Leads to Greener No-Till Future

Matt Griggs says embracing biomass in his fields has improved soil tilth and health, stabilized yields, enhanced weed control and produced a better-looking balance sheet.

By John Dobberstein posted on May 22, 2020 | Posted in Seeding Practices

When Matt Griggs decided to embark on no-till practices more than a decade ago he was already dealing with a degraded soil resource. More than 100 years of conventional tillage and a monoculture of cotton on his family’s rolling farm ground had caused erosion and stripped soils of organic matter.

Feeding Off No-Till, Cover Crop Profitability

Tiffany Cattle Co. separates itself from the herd with a focus on grazing cover crops to improve soil health economically.

By John Dobberstein posted on July 23, 2018 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health

When Shawn and Shane Tiffany took over the former Black Diamond feed yard in 2007 it wasn’t in terrible shape, mostly because of manure applications that kept organic matter in the soil. But after going to a cover crop field day 8 years ago, the brothers didn’t want to just settle.

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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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