Tom Cotter
Grower, Austin, Minn.
Discovering the True Potential of Soil Health
Tom Cotter has embarked on a long journey adopting no-till on his farm and then evolving it to both organic and regenerative no-till principles side by side. The Austin, Minn., no-tiller, who runs 14 cash crops in rotation with cover crops and grazing on every acre, describes what’s possible when you fully commit to soil health. Cotter shares how to balance the positive and negative effect of each practice for weed control, making cover crops pay, coordinating livestock grazing with crop rotations and finding markets for all that’s produced.
The 2026 National No-Tillage Conference Video Replay is brought to you by Clean Fuel Credit Consortium (CFCC).
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