Back to Ross Bishop’s farm for our Video of the Week, as promised. What does a no-till field look like after getting over 9 inches of rain in one night? Let’s find out.

“It’s August 10th. We just had 9.1 inches of rain overnight. It’s 11 in the morning. I’m looking at a no-till wheat field. The water coming off is crystal clear. You see right through it. If we had that tilled soil, that would be brown like chocolate milk. That would be headed down to Lake Michigan, and I’m sure nobody would want that. We have no-till and cover crops here for 30 years. I see my yields getting better every year and less labor and I save fuel. As I get older, I don’t have the ambition to do the rock picking and working the ground. Prairie strip in the background. We are enjoying our no-till and cover crops and making the environment a better place.” 

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