Cover crops help revive fields after flood

By Quentin Connealy for Midwest Messenger
Oct 27, 2025
Oct 27, 2025

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Oh hey! Just me again. I know it’s been a while since we’ve hung out in your Midwest Messenger, but today is your lucky day!

Catchup with Q 1.jpeg — Q plants green into cover crops in spring 2025. After a major flood in 2024, he used cover crops to repair his fields.
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Soybean planting, replant nears an end after soggy spring

CORN! It's all in the ground at least. It sure has been a wild spring, and it feels good to …

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Rivers rise, fields flood in eastern Nebraska

"You feel helpless, but as long as everyone is safe there's not much one can do at that point."

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PPR Connealy 2.jpg.png — Quentin Connealy’s corn and soybean fields east of Tekamah, Neb., were covered in water from the swollen Missouri River.
Aerial drone photo by Quentin Connealy

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Catchup with Q 2.jpeg — Cover crops grow in a field of Q's that was flooded in 2024. Some acres were planted green in spring 2025 as Q aims to implement more regenerative farming practices on his operation.
Submitted photo

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Q Connealy farms near Tekamah, Nebraska, and shared his adventures as a Midwest Messenger Producer Progress Reporter in 2024.