Montgomery County Conservation District Creates No-Till Drill Video

Written by Shannon Wehinger on January 10, 2025. Posted in Conservation District Project Spotlight, Mini-grant, Nonpoint Source

Screenshot from the no-till video.

Submitted by Abby Reiter, Ag Conservation Specialist, Montgomery County Conservation District

Montgomery County Conservation District (MCCD) partnered with Penn State Extension, the Montgomery County Planning Commission, and the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts through an educational grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to film a video demonstrating the use of a no-till drill, which is available for rental through MCCD. This video provides a step-by-step guide on how to set up, calibrate, and use the no-till drill for planting.

This project aimed to create an educational video that serves as a resource for participants of the no-till drill rental program and provides general agricultural conservation education to promote no-till planting. The drill can be used for no-till seeding, pasture renovation, planting of pollinator plots, lawn-to-meadow conversion, and basin naturalization.

Click here to watch the video. 

Financial and other support for this project is provided by the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, Inc. through a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act, administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.