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NAME: Nick Guetterman
LOCATION: Bucyrus, Kan.
FARM: Guetterman Brothers Family Farms
YEARS NO-TILLING: 35
ACRES: 16,000 acres
CROPS: Corn, soybeans and winter wheat
There are many factors impacting production from year to year, but our organic matter levels and yields seem to be firmly bound together. Where organic matter is high, yields are consistently high, too.
As a result, conserving and building organic matter on our eastern Kansas farm is a task constantly circling our minds as we make management decisions. I farm with my wife, Jennie; parents, Paul and Rosie; and my brothers and their families: Tom and Andrea; Mike and Jody; and Ted, Lisa and their son, Hayden, who just graduated college and is returning to the farm.
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What I’ve Learned from No-Tilling: Intensively Manage Winter Wheat
What I’ve Learned from No-Tilling: Seed Covers with a Spreader
In decades past our farm was bleeding organic matter with every pass of the plow, just like every other farm in the area. When my dad and uncles started the transition to no-till in 1982, they slowed and eventually stopped the exodus of organic matter from our fields.
Now we’re building organic matter through no-till, rotation and cover crops and can see our success reflected in our yield monitor. Our top producing fields are those just taken out of pasture with 4-7% organic matter. We hope to farm in a fashion that maintains those high levels and…
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