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To Grow US Cover Crop Acreage & Improve Soil Health, the Quickest, Most Cost-Efficient Way is to Get More Growers to See the Dozens of Benefits of No-Tilling

July 12, 2023 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101, Cover Crops, Soil Health

Each year, we conduct in-depth benchmark surveys of our No-Till Farmer (NTF), Strip-Till Farmer (STF) and Cover Crop Strategies (CCS) readers. Our goal is to provide valuable insights on what these growers are thinking and to serve as an up-to-date measurement of their cropping practices.

No-Till Farmer Influencers & Innovators

[Podcast] Compaction and Controlled Traffic with Randall Reeder

In this episode of the No-Till Farmer Influencers & Innovators podcast, brought to you by Topcon Agriculture, No-Till Farmer editor Frank Lessiter talks with Randall Reeder, who has done years of research on ridge till, strip till, no-till and conventional tillage through his work at the Hoytville Research Station in northwest Ohio.

By Julia Gerlach posted on October 31, 2019 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Nutrient Management

In this episode of the No-Till Farmer Influencers & Innovators podcast, brought to you by Topcon Agriculture, No-Till Farmer editor Frank Lessiter talks with Randall Reeder, who has done years of research on ridge-till, strip-till no-till and conventional tillage through his work at the Hoytville Research Station in northwest Ohio.

Getting Die-Hard Conventional-Tillage Growers to Make the Switch to No-Till Likely Means Guaranteeing Them as Much as $40 per Acre in Extra Income

By Frank Lessiter posted on February 28, 2019 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Soil Health

As a veteran farm magazine editor told me years ago, no-tillers have such a good thing going economically, why do they get so discouraged when neighbors refuse to switch to less tillage?

Data Shows Switch to No-Till Would Require $40 per Acre Incentive

February 19, 2019

As a veteran farm magazine editor told me years ago, no-tillers have such a good thing going economically, why do they get so discouraged when neighbors refuse to switch to less tillage?

High Profit? Or High Yield?

By Frank Lessiter posted on October 31, 2018 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Equipment, Crop Protection, Nutrient Management

Many coffee shop conversations among farmers after harvest this fall turned out to be pretty much the same as in previous years.

From the Desk of John Dobberstein

Numbers Don’t Add Up on Tillage and Sorghum

By John Dobberstein posted on January 10, 2018 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Water Management

The results are in for the National Sorghum Producers Yield Contest and we’ll see how no-tilled submissions stacked up against conventional and reduced tillage. I think you’ll like what the data show.

Weathering Unpredictability and Stabilizing Yield with Strip-Till

A USDA plant physiologist explains how results of recent tillage comparisons reveal strip-till may be the best practice to address future environmental conditions.

June 10, 2017 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Water Management, Strip-Till Farming

A USDA plant physiologist explains how results of recent tillage comparisons reveal strip-till may be the best practice to address future environmental conditions.

No-Till Out-Yields Tillage in Tough Conditions

Two long-term tillage studies in Indiana and Illinois prove no-till can yield as well as tillage and perform even better in periods of drought or heat stress.

By Laura Barrera posted on November 19, 2016 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101, Seeding & Planting

More than 70 years ago, Ed Faulkner wrote on the opening page of his book, Plowman’s Folly, that, “no one has ever advanced a scientific reason for plowing.”

Tighty Whities Demonstrate Soil Microbiology

November 17, 2016 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: South Dakota State University Extensions

South Dakota State University Extension buried mens' white cotton briefs in different tillage systems and viewed their decompositions as a comparison in the soil microbiology levels.

[Video] Kinze Mfg. at the 2016 National No-Tillage Conference

February 17, 2016 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Equipment

Mike Gryp, district sales manager for Kinze Mfg., discusses the benefits of no-till practices vs. conventional tillage, and maintenance aspects of the company’s no-till planting machines that farmers should keep in mind.

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To Grow US Cover Crop Acreage & Improve Soil Health, the Quickest, Most Cost-Efficient Way is to Get More Growers to See the Dozens of Benefits of No-Tilling

[Podcast] Compaction and Controlled Traffic with Randall Reeder

Getting Die-Hard Conventional-Tillage Growers to Make the Switch to No-Till Likely Means Guaranteeing Them as Much as $40 per Acre in Extra Income

Data Shows Switch to No-Till Would Require $40 per Acre Incentive

High Profit? Or High Yield?

Numbers Don’t Add Up on Tillage and Sorghum

Weathering Unpredictability and Stabilizing Yield with Strip-Till

No-Till Out-Yields Tillage in Tough Conditions

Tighty Whities Demonstrate Soil Microbiology

[Video] Kinze Mfg. at the 2016 National No-Tillage Conference

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