2022 National No-Tillage Conference
Date: 01/04/22
Location: Louisville, KY
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Western South Dakota is dry. The last few years it’s been really, really dry. In the drought conditions we see all too often anymore, I’m very glad we no longer till the 750 acres we use to grow forage to help support our 600-head commercial cow/calf herd.
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Focus on Biology for Better Soil Health
For farmers aiming for sustainable and profitable crop production, optimizing soil health and function is the ultimate endgame.
What You Should Know About No-Till Planters
For no-tillers, the planter is the most crucial piece of equipment on their farm. This article will take you through the basic components of a no-till planter and provide you with tips for no-till planter maintenance from experienced pros in the industry.
Digging Into the Principles of Regenerative Ag
Based on the principles of building healthy soil, regenerative ag aims to not only sustain farm productivity but to actually work with nature to regenerate the soil, increase biodiversity and enhance the farming ecosystem.
Attend the 30th Anniversary National No-Tillage Conference
Join more than 40 top-notch no-tillers, agronomists, researchers and other no-till experts in Louisville, January 4-7, 2022, to discover innovative ideas that can help you get the most out of your no-till farming system. The 30th anniversary National No-Tillage Conference offers a mix of thought-provoking General Sessions, expert-led No-Till Classrooms and collaborative No-Till Roundtables. Plus, valuable pesticide recertification and Certified Crop Advisor credits are available to qualifying attendees. LEARN MORE
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What I've Learned from No-Tilling: No-Till and Cover Crops Deliver More From Field and Pasture
No-Tillage is for the ‘Birds’
New Lines of Winter Camelina Show Promise for Profitable Relay Cropping
Industry News
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No-Till Videos
How to Calibrate a No-Till Grain Drill
Don't waste seed — or time — speculating whether or not your no-till grain drill is seeding at the right rate. Learn this easy way to calibrate your drill every time you use it.
Building a Planter from the Ground Up: Customized Row Units Produce Even Emergence
Markesan, Wis. no-tiller Allan Brooks and planter specialist Kurt Williams discuss how the row-unit attachment choices for Brooks’ new custom planter — from the Harvest International row cleaners to the 100% accurate electric-drive high-speed seed meters and the finger-till closing wheels — lead to precision emergence and picket-fence stands of sweet corn.
Adapting a Sidedress Rig to do Interseeding
Jeff Gaska, a no-tiller and strip-tiller from Columbus, Wis., explains how his Dalton sidedress rig was adapted to interseed cover crops between corn rows to extend livestock grazing opportunities and boost soil health.
How to Build a Strip-Till Rig from an Old Cultivator
No-tiller and strip-tiller Jeff Gaska of Columbus, Wis., shares how he turned a 12-row John Deere cultivator bar into a custom strip-till rig,
plus made it adjustable so it can double as a sidedress machine.
No-Till 101
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Helping Zambia Reach its ‘Huge’ Farming Potential
A longtime Australian no-tiller and former speaker at the National No-Tillage Confernce is playing a major role in an organization determined to help Africa adopt modern farming methods.
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Top 10 No-Till Stories in August 2021
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No-Tillage is for the ‘Birds’
OVER 50 YEARS of writing about the benefits of no-till, we’ve only done a few articles on the expansion of wildlife populations with no-till. That’s why we were pleased to come across some work by University of Illinois environmental scientists on whether no-till and cover crops provide extra benefits for birds.
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6 Easy Hands-on Tricks to Assess Your No-Till Soils
If you want to know more about your soils, the quickest way to find out may involve digging around in your shed or taking a road trip to the hardware store.
No-Till Columns
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Building Stronger Communities through Agricultural Innovation
With one foot in the future and one in the past, this Iowa farm kid is seeking to integrate livestock and row cropping autonomously in order to restore health to the land, water and community. -
No-Tillage is for the ‘Birds’
OVER 50 YEARS of writing about the benefits of no-till, we’ve only done a few articles on the expansion of wildlife populations with no-till. That’s why we were pleased to come across some work by University of Illinois environmental scientists on whether no-till and cover crops provide extra benefits for birds.
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Residue Helps You Save Water, Fertilizer Costs
I’m sure you’ve heard this before, but it bears repeating: keeping residue on your fields will save water and reduce fertilizer costs. -
Water Fights Coming Home to Roost in Wyoming
Ogallala aquifer water that is needed for agriculture is getting getting sold off at lucrative prices to municipalities and oil producers. Read on to see the impact it’s having.
No-Till Farmer Podcast
[Podcast] Integrating Farm-to-Table Organic Hemp with Covers and Grazing
For this No-Till Farmer podcast, we caught up with Tom Cotter, a no-tiller and strip-tiller in Austin, Minnesota, right after a Minnesota Soil Health School session he hosted at his farm. He explains how he has skirted many of the problems facing hemp farmers by following the farm-to-table production model to grow the product for his own Superior Cannabis Company stores in Austin and Duluth.
No-Till Farmer podcast series is brought to you by The Andersons.
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Planter Maintenance with Precision Planting
How to Make Sure Your Planter Bar is Level
It's important to make sure you set your planter bar height so your parallel arms run level with the ground. When your parallel arms run uphill to the bar you limit the amount of travel that you have for the row-unit. As you start to go over any sort of terrain your row-unit may bottom out on that stop and you'll be planting shallow.
The Planter Maintenance series is brought to you by Precision Planting. Precision Planting, LLC is the leading provider of practical and effective precision ag technologies to help make farmers smarter every season.
No-Till Passport Series
Helping Zambia Reach its ‘Huge’ Farming Potential
A longtime Australian no-tiller and former speaker at the National No-Tillage Conference is playing a major role in an organization determined to help Africa adopt modern farming methods.
Read more from the No-Till Passport series.
Product Roundups
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Vertical-Tillage Product Roundup 2021
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Farm Progress Show Product Roundup 2021
Check out the latest offerings from these 2021 Farm Progress Show exhibitors. -
Products You Would Have Seen at the 2021 National Farm Machinery Show
Check out these innovations from exhibitors that were slated to be at the 2021 National Farm Machinery Show.
Top Store Items
Covering Up, Part 5: Building a More Efficient, Diverse Cover Crop System
This special 26 page report goes in-depth on the role of covers in a dynamic farm ecosystem. Kicking things off are the results of our 2021 Cover Crop Benchmark Study, detailing what a wide range of growers have to say about different topics related to all things cover crops.
Cover Crop Strategies
The editors of Cover Crop Strategies and No-Till Farmer created this 24-page special report to share ideas on getting covers established, using a roller-crimper for termination, successfully integrating livestock into a cover-crop system and using covers to transition away from an overdependence on herbicides and fertilizers.
Turning Your Sprayer into an Effective No-Till Asset
Make your spraying operations an even more valuable tool for your no-till system with this special 32-page management report. Get up to speed on the cost-saving precision spray technologies available on the market and pick up several how-to tips on improving application effectiveness. Plus, hear first-hand from No-Till Farmer readers as they share some of the updates they’ve made to their sprayers to ratchet up performance.
Getting More From Your Nitrogen Investment
Discover numerous tools and application strategies at your disposal today including the case for moving nitrogen (N) applications in corn to later in the season and the potential that crop sensors are showing for targeted N applications to increase efficiency and profitability. Plus, learn about certain species of cover crops that can fix significant amounts of N.