Practical Farmers of Iowa has a slogan, “don’t farm naked”. Naked meaning bare soil. Today, I’m farming naked an I’m not too excited about it. They call this conservation tillage because it’s lightly tilled just one time and it’s done right before we plant corn, but still, it dried out the soil quickly and it leaves the land vulnerable to wind and water erosion. 

 
One day, I’ll be no-till planting corn into cover crop, and I won’t be farming naked.