Prosser Farms

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Tim Prosser operates a dairy farm in the northeast part of Dane County. With his family—plus his dog, Rosco—and his dad, John, Tim milks about 100 cows and farms roughly 280 acres of crops. He’s tried cover crops in the past, but mostly saw benefits as forage. And with the variable soils in the Town of York, tillage has long been the farm’s go-to soil management tool. In fall 2024, Tim agreed to particpate in Dane Demo Farms. One project he was especially interested in was transitioning a field to no-till. The Demo Farms team helped set up plot strips to look not only at the no-till transition, but also whether cover crops would help—or potentially complicate—that shift.