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You can see that we've really got some great, I don't know, I state ground right here on the left. If you go over 80 to one, you probably won't see nitrogen for up to 12 months out of that cover crop residue and farmers just don't understand that. If you go over 40 to one, you're going to start seeing that tie up. Our carbon and nitrogen ratio on this cover crop was a 16 to one. The big reason is if we get that carbon and nitrogen ratio too high, we're going to tie up that nitrogen and then we're not going to see it. What's the benefit? How many farmers in here have ever heard somebody plant cereal rye and it dinged their corn yield? It's quite a few hands. One of the key things I think farmers miss the mark on is they go out, they use a cover crop and they don't really understand what is the nutrient load inside of that cover crop. It also gives us a breakdown of the available nutrients that we're going to see from that cover crop. It gives us a carbon and nitrogen ratio, how many tons per acre that we had. Now we just bundle it up into essentially just a trash bag and send it into the lab to get an analysis ran on it. We dry that on a trailer and we send that to the lab. You can do it any way you want as long as you maintain a known number of square feet. So we do tissue sampling on our cover crop. If we apply a pound of nutrients, we want to get more than a pound of grain. One of the key things that we have focused on on our farm is looking at return on investment. I got introduced to the NRCS, a DC introduced me to this really crazy guy named Ray Archuleta, and somehow they talked us into planting cover crops.

Decided to go into agriculture, started with 30 acres. As you go east, it gets flattened out into the Piedmont. We're in the western part of North Carolina, somewhat hilly ground in our West County ground. For those of you that don't know where we farm, this is where we call home. I'm going to talk to you all a little bit about our capturing high yields and some of the stuff that we worked with in the 2022 season. This episode was recorded live at the 2023 National No-Tillage Conference. In today's episode of the podcast, Russell Hedrick, the North Carolina No-Tiller who broke the world dryland corn yield record last season details the specific practices that propelled him to that record setting corn yield and explains his philosophy about regenerative farming. I'm Michaela Paukner, managing editor at No-Till Farmer. Welcome to the No-Till Farmer Podcast, brought to you by SOURCE by Sound Agriculture. It’s such a solid backup plan, you’ll probably find yourself wondering why SOURCE wasn’t the plan all along. By activating soil microbes, SOURCE provides more of the existing nitrogen and phosphorus to your crops. SOURCE from Sound Agriculture unlocks more of the nutrients already in your fields, so you can add less fertilizer while getting the yield you’re counting on. Welcome to a better SOURCE of fertilizer.

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No-Till Farmer podcast series is brought to you by SOURCE®️ by Sound Agriculture. A Conversation with Soil Health Advocates Ray Archuleta, Gabe Brown, and Russell Hedrick Cutting Inputs, Growing Liquid Corn and Sequestering Carbon with Russell Hedrick UPDATED: No-Tiller Russell Hedrick Breaks 20-Year Dryland Corn Yield Record He also explains his philosophy about regenerative farming, soil testing, nutrient management and much more.

In today’s episode of the podcast, brought to you by SOURCE®️ by Sound Agriculture, we bring you a replay of Hedrick’s 2023 National No-Tillage Conference presentation detailing the specific practices that propelled him to record-setting corn and soybean yields. His willingness to challenge conventional wisdom, try on-farm experiments and use regenerative agriculture practices all contribute to his success. North Carolina no-tiller Russell Hedrick made history with his 2022 corn harvest, raising a dryland no-till corn crop that topped 459 bushels per acre. Russell Hedrick, No-Tiller, Hickory, N.C. That's what regenerative practices have done for us.” We see corn test weights in the 60-64 pound range. In our plot with cover crops and livestock integration, we are seeing higher nutrient densities. “No-till can mean no yield if you're not doing any other practice.

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