Ross Bishop, who farms about 13 miles down the road from Blake., also dealt with all that flooding. Whenever it rains, Bishop’s no-till fields hold up better than his neighbor’s conventional fields. And he’s got the visual evidence to prove it.
“By doing no-till, you can see the difference here. This was on a Sunday, I was going to church, and the neighbor had planted winter wheat that fall. This was in April when this 3-inch rain happened. You can see all the brown coming off his field. I had corn stubble no-tilled and water was coming off clear. It looks a whole lot better. I’ve had people say to me, ‘you know you still have nutrients coming off.’ I understand that. It’s not a perfect world yet. But I think the good Lord want s us to be good stewards and we’re doing our best. This is what we’ve got now.”
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