Thinking Outside the Box with Cover Crops & Conservation

Vincennes, Ind., No-Till Innovator and Legend Ray McCormick believes nothing pays greater dividends than investing in conservation. When he talks diversification, it means no-tilling corn, wheat, full-season and double-cropped soybeans and cover crops, raising peaches for fresh market, and managing 1,000 acres of woodlands and wetlands for sportsmen. Cover crops are an integral part of McCormick’s system, and although he’s been planting them for decades, he’s refining his techniques every year.

The 2024 Conservation Ag Operator Fellow shares observations from a challenging growing season, including the impact of cover crops in an extremely wet spring. McCormick also reveals his playbook for seeding cover crops from the combine and details the envelope-pushing experiments planned for 2025.

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