Equipment Rental

Some organizations rent equipment like no-till drills or roller-crimpers. Select your state from the list below.

Many NRCS offices have no-till drill rentals and a few have roller crimpers. Check with your local NRCS offices.

Find your county NRCS office. 

• Alabama
• Arkansas
• Florida
• Georgia
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Mississippi
• North Carolina

• Oklahoma
• Puerto Rico
• South Carolina
• Texas
• Tennessee
• U.S. Virgin Islands
• Virginia

More Information:

• General
• Planting Cover Crops
• Terminating Cover Crops
• Planting Cash Crops in Cover Crop Residue
• Videos

General

• Depth Control for the Sweatless Soil Sampler. Bryan Smith. Clemson Cooperative Extension.
• Steel in the Field. A Farmer’s Guide to Weed Management Tools. USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education.

Planting Cover Crops

• Calibration of Bulk Dry Fertilizer Applicators. Paul Sumner, Circular 798. College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. University of Georgia.
• Calibration Method for No-Till and Conventional Till Drills. Dr. Dennis Hancock, Professor and State Forage Extension Specialist, University of Georgia.
• Grain Drills and Planters. Plant Materials Technical Note. Natural Resources conservation Service Technical Note No: TX-PM-16-03. June 2016.

Terminating Cover Crops

• Introduction to Cover Crop Rolling & the VA-USDA Crimper Roller Demonstration Project. Virginia Cooperative Extension.
• Rollers for Terminating Cover Crops. Conservation Systems Fact Sheet 07. Agricultural Research Service National Soil Dynamics Laboratory.

Planting Cash Crops in Cover Crop Residue

• Planter Closing Wheel Performance for Cotton in a Conservation System.
• Modifying In-Row Subsoilers and Planters for High Residue Systems.
• Planter/Drill Considerations for Conservation Tillage Systems.
• Selecting a Strip-Till Rig.
• Strip Tillage Implements Comparable across Single and Twin Row Peanut.

Videos

• Four Farmers Share Their Secrets – Strategies for planting cash crops into cover crops in the Southeast. University of Georgia Extension. 
• No-Till Roller Crimper Explained. Rodale Institute.
• Planting into Heavy Cover Crop Residue: Setting Up Your Planter for Success. University of Georgia Extension.
• How to Take a Biomass Sample from Cover Crops. University of Georgia Extension.