When it FINALLY stopped raining, we were quick to get back in the field and beginning tackling our monster of a problem… planting corn and soybeans though insanely thick, tangled, dead cover crop.

In Cover Crop Disaster (https://youtu.be/TTBil0ugYDY), we showed the painful process of finding every way NOT to plant through cover crop. Through trial and error, we finally identified the planter setup that would give us our best chance of getting a crop planted this year:

John Deere 1770 NT Planter with:

• retrofitted Martin No-Till row cleaners

• no-till coulters

• Prescription Tillage Technology STP Disc Openers

• Copperhead and Schaffert Manufacturing closing wheels

• Precision Planting vDrives and DeltaForce

In this video, we show how the set up worked for planting corn on June 13 and soybeans on July 4. We also include follow-ups so you can see the stand and how things are going so far this summer.

You may enjoy this video if you want to:

• Plant into cover crop

• Apply the principles of soil health on your farms

• Reduce erosion and loss of nutrients

• Increase beneficial soil biology

• Increase earthworm populations

• Increase soil organic matter

• Capture "free" nitrogen from the atmosphere for your crops

• Learn more about regenerative agriculture