From innovative equipment to an innovative farmer. Let’s head out to Coolidge, Ariz., now to check out one of Robert Boyle’s more action-packed fields.

“This is one of the first fields we have on our 2026 corn. This was planted into triticale cover crops with oats, peas, vetch, clover, and kale. We harvested that for silage mid-February and then we planted the corn into it. It's got a Rain 360 running on it. We're side dressing all our fertilizer with the Rain unit, and this field will be chopped July 10th through the 15th. Then go back into sorghum. That'll come off in November and then we'll go right back into a cover crop, Triticale cover crop again with the peas, vetch, clover and kale to help build the ground up.” 

“I have an 8-row 30 twin-row planter and with the twin row that makes it to where the tram lines or the wheel paths are only about 22 and a half inches wide. So, we block off a plate on each side of the wheel traffic and then double the population in the next plate. So, as you can see, there's tram lines out here, but they blend right in because you can't see them with that double population. We're running about 72,000 seeds per acre on that single row and we run 40,000 on the double row.”

You can read much more about Robert’s operation in the upcoming Conservation Tillage Guide or No-TillFarmer.com.

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