Douglas Poole is a dryland farmer working 15,000 acres of cropland and 14,000 acres of pasture near Mansfield, WA where they get about 11 inches of precipitation a year, mostly in the form of snow. Through hard work, ingenuity, and a willingness to try new things he has been able to successfully integrate cover crops into his dryland small grain systems and uses it as an additional revenue source by renting the land to graze cattle as a cover crop termination method. This integrated systems approach has increased his soil organic carbon, increasing its ability to cycle nutrients and to hold water later into the spring growing season thereby increasing productivity and profit from his grains. We will discuss practical solutions and the approach he took to figure it out a system that works.