Jack Boyer is no stranger to experimentation. As a retired ag engineer, the Reinbeck, Iowa, farmer spent more than 3 decades proactively problem-solving equipment issues. For the last 10 years, he’s applied his trial-and-error methods to cover crops and today utilizes cover crops on 100% of his corn, seed corn and soybean operation.
But Boyer acknowledges a successful marriage of strip-till and cover crops takes work and a willingness to learn from mistakes, while also celebrating the successes. Boyer details his experience integrating cover cropping practices into his farm operation to include examples of nutrient application savings (as much as $30 per acre of N), water infiltration benefits and 4 years of interseeding trials.
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