2021 National Strip-Tillage Conference
Date: 08/05/21
Location: Omaha, NE
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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 2021 National Strip-Tillage Conference
Discover cutting-edge ideas, techniques and strategies from the most innovative, forward-thinking minds in strip-till to raise your level of strip-till profitability, efficiency and efficacy. The 2021 National Strip-Tillage Conference, Aug. 5-6, in Omaha, Neb., offers a mix of thought-provoking general sessions featuring top experts, profit-boosting Strip-Till Classrooms led by strip-till authorities, and interactive farmer-to-farmer Strip-Till Roundtables. LEARN MORE
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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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Canadian No-Tillers Penalized
SASKATCHEWAN NO-TILLERS certainly aren’t in a cheerful mood these days when it comes to carbon sequestration. It’s because they recently learned growers who use minimal tillage or low-soil disturbance cropping systems could be shut out of the potentially lucrative Canadian market for carbon credit offsets.
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No-Till Works with Veggies
Bill Kerr, a vegetable specialist and breeder of a range of vegetables, has been no-tilling for 18 years and says he’s seen a range of benefits. Conservation practices can build soils up to a point where you can realize maximum yields, higher water-holding capacity, greater disease resistance, better eelworm control and better-tasting vegetables with longer shelf life. -
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. -
‘Planting Green’ Picks Up Speed
Instead of terminating a cover crop prior to no-tilling corn, soybeans or another crop, more growers are planting through a still growing green cover crop. Seeding a cash crop into a growing green cover crop that may range in height from just a few inches to over 6 feet tall allows both crops to grow longer in the spring.
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Lessons Learned from 2012 Drought Could Mitigate 2021 Issues for No-Tillers
With much of the U.S. facing conditions similar to those of the 2012 drought, a look back at lessons learned suggests adjusting management plans may help protect no-till yields and increase resilience. -
Pay-for-Performance Incentivizes Conservation Practices
Incentivizing the implementation of conservation farming practices can be a challenge, but a growing awareness of the role agriculture can play in reducing the impacts of climate change could mean more money in farmers' pockets. -
Canadian No-Tillers Penalized
SASKATCHEWAN NO-TILLERS certainly aren’t in a cheerful mood these days when it comes to carbon sequestration. It’s because they recently learned growers who use minimal tillage or low-soil disturbance cropping systems could be shut out of the potentially lucrative Canadian market for carbon credit offsets.
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Spotting Water Stress from the Sky
Work being done by a European company’s Earth observation program could unveil insights on how evapotranspiration can be more accurately measured and the data used to help farm management.
No-Till Farmer Podcast
[Podcast] Minimizing Environmental Impacts of Farming with Healthy Soils
For this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, we chat with independent agriculture consultant Bill Stangel of Madison, Wis., who joins us to discuss some of the ways farmers can minimize environmental impacts by focusing on developing healthy soils.
No-Till Farmer's podcast series is brought to you by Montag Manufacturing.
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Planter Maintenance with Precision Planting
The Heart of Your Planter Needs an Annual Check-up
The meter is the heart of your planter. So if you think about every seed that gets placed in the furrow, it starts at your meter. An uncalibrated meter will cost you yield and money, reducing your profitability.
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
‘Going Nuclear’ on Soil Erosion Losses in Uganda
The livelihoods of millions of Uganda citizens is rooted in the highlands — the mountainous or elevated regions of the East African country. These regions play a significant role in agriculture, which is the main source of income for many Ugandans, including for 70% of working women. These regions are also recognized as one of the key hotspots where land degradation, due to soil erosion, is rampant.
The No-Till Passport series is brought to you by Martin Industries.
Product Roundups
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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. -
Fertilizer & Soil Amendments Product Roundup 2021
Check out the latest fertilizer and soil amendment products from some of the industry's leading suppliers. -
Fertilizer Application Product Roundup 2021
Check out the latest fertilizer application products from some of the industry's leading suppliers.
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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.
Covering Up, Part 4: Getting Results with Innovative Cover Crop Systems
In this 32-page special report, you’ll read about some of the farmers and researchers who are pushing the boundaries of cover crop management, discovering new ways they can extend the growing season, supplement grazing, capture more sunlight, feed the biology underground and even improve the bottom line.
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.