Corn Planter Setup for Planting Green - Practical Cover Croppers

Will Cannon of Prairie City, Iowa shares practical tips on his planter setup for planting corn into a living cereal rye cover crop. He gives a tour of his corn planter and talks floating row cleaners, no-till coulters, spiked closing wheels, drag chains, and more. He also shows how he makes adjustments in the field depending on soil conditions. Note that this video was filmed in May 2022 when conditions were pretty dry. Keep an eye out for more videos in this series, which will focus on everything from the basics of cover cropping to more advanced topics like relay cropping, roller crimping and diverse rotations.
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Great explanation regarding planter set up

[@scrivyscriv]

Thanks for all the insight!

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Great job on the video!