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Local No-Tillers Join To Create Research Farm

With funding from a variety of sponsors, they can investigate the practices that work well in their immediate area and prepare for the future with confidence.
October 1, 2006 | Posted in Seeding & Planting
Over the years, I have felt fortunate that I could promote no-tilling through educational work with conservation agencies and farmer organizations. I’ve been a member of my county Soil Conservation District for more than 16 years.
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Successful No-Tilling Starts At Harvest

Effective residue management is the first step to minimize numerous no-till concerns.
By Frank Lessiter posted on September 1, 2005 | Posted in Residue Management
Properly handling straw, chaff and stalks as they exit the combine is key to managing your residue throughout the year with no-till. It’s due to the fact that effective residue management influences erosion control, moisture conservation, seed placement, fertilizer distribution, crop emergence and weed control.
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Try These Proven No-Till Residue Management Tricks

Regardless of where you farm or the crops you grow, study these solid residue management lessons from no-tillers growing high-yielding grain crops.
By Frank Lessiter posted on February 1, 2005 | Posted in Residue Management
Just because you concentrate on no-tilling corn, soybeans or another crop doesn’t mean you can’t pick up plenty of yield-building residue management tricks from other growers. To do a better job of managing residues, check out how these eight Pacific Northwest and western Canadian growers go about managing residues for top profit.
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What I've Learned from No-Tilling

Longer No-Till Rotations Were The Answer

No-till offers greater yield advantages in dryer years because it provides about 2 inches of extra soil moisture at seeding time.
By Mike Dick and Ron Ross posted on October 1, 2004 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101, Seeding & Planting
Over the years since my dad started no-tilling in 1978, we’ve had a lot to learn — and not much of a growing season to learn it in. On our extreme northern farm that is less than 30 miles south of the Canadian border, we’re lucky to get 90 to 110 frost-free days, creating a situation not unlike Siberia (our average January temperature is minus 5 degrees Fahrenheit). This year we even had snow on May 11.
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If You Weren’t In St. Louis, You Can Still Buy National No-Tillage Conference Books, Reports

The 432 pages of in-depth no-till books and reports that attendees received at the National No-Tillage Conference are available.
March 1, 2002 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101
To expand your no-till knowledge, here are a half dozen in-depth no-till books and reports to boost your no-tilling profits in 2002. Each is jammed with dollar-building ideas and cost-effective ways to trim your no-tilling costs.
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No-Till Is For The Birds

This North Dakota no-tiller is among a growing number of readers renting out land to hunters.
By Holly Gray posted on July 1, 2001 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101
Each year during pheasant and grouse hunting seasons, Ron Swindler’s farm at Mott, N.D., was becoming more and more like a shooting gallery. So the no-tiller decided to do something about it.
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