National Cover Crop Summit
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Derek and Tannis Axten use a low-disturbance, high-diversity no-till system to keep tabs on their soil health ‘bank balance’ and improve their farm ground in Saskatchewan.
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2019 National Cover Crop Summit
Join us March 20-21, 2019, for the first-ever National Cover Crop Summit, a 100% FREE-TO-ATTEND ONLINE EVENT focused on equipping you with the knowledge necessary to harness the full potential of a cover-crop system to protect your soil and increase your farm's profits.
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Understanding Soil Health — Where We Are and Where We Need to Go
What is “soil health?” Ask 10 people this question, and you’ll likely get 10 different answers. Dr. Zouheir Massri will help you understand soil health as its related to soil functionality and where we need to go to take soil health to the next level in a free No-Till Farmer webinar sponsored by AgroLiquid on Wednesday, March 13, at 10 a.m.
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Loftness Introduces 12-Ton Spreaders for Fertilizer, Lime Applications
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