Plant Cover Crops

Learning about the benefits of planting cover crops.

Aerial Application Certification

Cover Crop Aerial Applicators Training Now Set

After several months of trying to arrange schedules between a number of very busy men we have now set dates and times for training pilots on aerial applying cover crops. Click here for the  CoverCropWebinarFlyer.

There are Two Sessions Available:

  • August 29 from 7-8 p.m  (CST)
  • August 30 from 6-7 a.m. (CST)

Limit: 25 people/session
Cost: $100/login

Please register for the date and time that works best for you:

https://student.gototraining.com/06gk9/rt/8432782830968572160

Additional training times may be offered if need arises.

These sessions will also be recorded and may be sent to those who could not attend.

Please call Dennis Gardisser or his assistant, Lynn Baxter, at (501) 676-1762,
if you have questions.

For other posts on aerial application of cover crops click here and also here.

Aerial Application of Cover Crops Training-NAAA Certification

I’m excited to report that there will be a training school in the summer of 2011 for aerial applicators that want to fly on cover crops! The planning for this meeting has been going on for some time with Dave Eby from AgriFlite Services, Inc, myself, and Dennis R. Gardisser, Ph.D, P.E. from WRK of Arkansas, LLC. At this time I am very confident that the training will end up with applicators being certified by the National Agricultural Aviation Association. Our goal is to train aerial applicators on how to apply cover crops so that producers are very satisfied with the end results.

The plan is to offer training to applicators across the Midwestern states sometime in June or July in an evening so that we can get as many applicators trained as possible. Many more details are to be ironed out but I want to let you all know that we are working on this awesome project! For more information contact me at dave@plantcovercrops.com.

900 acres of cover crops flown on in 4 1/2 hours and no skips! This is what we want from all aerial applicators (the brown areas within the cover crops were prevented planting acres in 2010).
This photo was taken in NW Indiana in late March just as the cover crops were greening up. Again, the brown spots were from wet spots in the field from 2010.
A ground level view of the cover crops from the fields pictured above (taken April 17, 2011).