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.
- Oklahoma
- Puerto Rico
- South Carolina
- Texas
- Tennessee
- U.S. Virgin Islands
- Virginia
More Information:
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.