Planting Into Dead Cover Crops

Planting our crops into mature green cover crops usually works really well... but this spring, we were rained out of the field so long that our cover crop died. Then a storm blew it down creating a tough, thick, tangled mat that was almost impossible to plant through. With the help of other farmers, we finally found a solution that did NOT include plows, discs, hay balers, or matches. This is how it turned out... If you’d like to see everything that failed to plant through this cover crop, check out our Cover Crop Disaster video (   • Cover Crop Disaster - May 31, 2024  ). If you’d like to see the full details of how we made it work, check out Cover Crop Disaster Part 2: The Solution (   • Cover Crop Disaster: The Solution  ). If you have experience with a similar situation, we’d love to read about it in the comments. If you like this video, please help others find it by hitting the like button. If you don't like this video, give us a thumbs down and leave us a comment telling us how we can improve. As always, thank you for watching! 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 00:00 Intro 00:26 Planting Soybeans 02:02 Follow-Up 14 days After Planting 02:56 Follow-Up 26 days After Planting #CoverCrops #PlantingGreen #Farming #Farm #RowCrops #Corn #Planting2024 #Planter #CerealRye #Triticale #Vetch #Clover #RollerCrimper #SoilHealth #RegenerativeAgriculture #JohnDeere #PrecisionPlanting #PresciptionTillageTechnology #STP #STPdiscopeners #SchaffertManufacturing #Keeton #CooperheadClosingWheels #FarmEquipment