Bob Waring is a third-generation farmer at Brandon Farms, and he grows about 450 acres of corn and soybeans on land that his grandfather and father began no-tilling and cover cropping 40 years ago. Except for occasional deep ripping to break up compaction, the ground hasn’t been tilled since then. Waring plants green into a variety of live cover crops and said the approach has let him reduce chemical usage by about 75%.
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