6th gerneration on our home farm. Ive been around the farm my whole life, 2009 oac grad. Ive been farming full time for roughly 10 years. I farm with my parents and my brother on our dairy/cash crop operation, where i am the primary field manager. We have been practicing no-till/minimum till for roughly 20 year, 6 years ago we intoduced cover crops to our rotation. We have a crop rotation of corn soys wheat followed by a multi species cover crop and manure both liquid and dairy compost. We also grow alfalfa to feed the dairy herd threw out the rotation. This past year we have started trying to interseed cover crops into our corn as well with limited success. We own about 1000 acres rent a little bit and also provide custom services to local farms. We are mostly heavy clay soil with a little bit of loam to sandy loam soil. No till roughly 20 years cover crops 6. We have felt for many years that there had to be a better way to handle soil then by plowing and working the soil. And that sub soil is best to be left where it is for the roots and worms to work with, not iron. We started cover cropping in an effort to maximize our manure value and minimize run off. Since then we have seen huge benefits on our soils and now all wheat ground gets cover crops wether or not manure is applied. We are also now trying to get cover crops working with our corn crop. We have learned that you need to try things for your self and see what works in your system and in your management style and that there is a huge benifit to multi species mixes over oats, and actually no longer use oats in our mixes at all. This is for many reasons, some of which are that they are prone to rusts, others that they shade the soils in the spring and that they are to closely related to the wheat crop they are following and the corn crop to follow them, i.e they dont add enough diverstity to our soil. We have also learned that sunflowers are a great addition to a cover crop mix not just for the flower but the worms love them