Mariah Hill, Ind., no-tiller Joseph Kern is riding high after his Indiana Hoosiers won the national championship. And he’ll continue to stack wins this spring when he plants green into living cover crops, something he’s been doing since 2015. Kern credits networking and educational events like the No-Till Conference for steering him in the right direction. 

“We used to spray the cover crops at a short height because we were scared to plant into it and made some mistakes along the way like spraying it when it was really tall. We finally broke free and listened to our friends at the No-Till Conference, and decided we were going to plant green. Once we did that in 2015-2016, we decided we’d never go back. It’s the best thing. It works on our bottom ground, good ground and HEL ground. It made our farm profitable. We’d probably have to rent our farm out or do something different if we were going to try and fight the old ways.”