The NRCS is celebrating its 90th anniversary. We caught up with Jeremy Peters, CEO of the National Association of Conservation Districts. And after all these years, Jeremy tells us there’s still one big message they like to hammer home.  

“It's never too late to do the right thing. It's never too late to start that journey. We've got a lot of early adopters within our organization that have been experimenting with no-till and cover crops way before they were well known as they are today. These were people that were taking risks. They were trying something different, either because they wanted to try something different or because they had to because their economics were failing them and they needed to try something different. So I would say that it's never too late to try the right thing and to experiment with new practices.”

“Take a portion of a field and try cover crops and see how it works or many conservation districts offer no-till drills for rent. You don't have to invest in the equipment necessarily and have that big capital expense, but you can rent a no-till drill from a local conservation district and give it a try for a season and see how no-till works on your operation.”

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