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More Moisture with a Side of Mustard Takes Dryland Farm to New Level
Gordon Gallup credits moisture savings and precise fertilizer placement for his early no-till success, while mustard has reduced pests and nitrogen needs.
Pictured Above: ROTATION WINNER. When markets finally allowed for Gordon Gallup to get mustard into his barley-wheat rotation, he found surprising benefits, such as a reduced need for nitrogen and less wireworm pressure in his subsequent crops
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NAME: Gordon Gallup
FARM: G 5 Land and Livestock
LOCATION: Ririe, Idaho
YEARS NO-TILLING: 31
NO-TILL ACRES: 5,000
CROPS: Winter wheat, spring wheat, barley, malt barley, mustard and alfalfa
Dryland with only 16 inches of annual rainfall means farming a lot of acres if you want to support a family and turn a profit in eastern Idaho. That also means farming a lot of hours — at least it did when we were farming conventionally.
We’ve left those days in the dust, literally, and with no-till we can now farm nearly five times the acres we did then and in less time.
We purchased our farm in Ririe, Idaho, from my parents in 1978. Back then, we did everything as had been done before. We raised wheat and barley in a summer fallow rotation, meaning we only got a crop every other year.
At the time a friend of mine who was a fertilizer dealer was the first person to suggest that we could probably get a crop off our fields 9 years out of 10, if we could conserve the moisture we were losing to our tillage practices. Some fields would get worked 10 times a year with fallow and planting preparation, depending on the conditions.
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