The many benefits of no-tillers planting green are starting to be recognized much more by folks as shown in two recent developments that promoted the concept through unique corn and soybean yield contests.
Maryland growers planted a record-setting 492,244 acres of cover crops, which will prevent an estimated 2.95 million pounds of nitrogen and 98,500 pounds of phosphorus from reaching waterways.
The amount of nutrient and sediment pollution that flowed from nine major rivers into the Chesapeake Bay remained below the 25-year average in 2013, the Chesapeake Bay Program reports.
Three decades of no-till, or “never till” as John Rigdon calls it, is certainly long enough to establish a tradition at Rigdon Farms, but that’s only part of the story.
A team of editors from No-Till Farmer – John Dobberstein, Laura Allen and Cole Vandermause – will be visiting no-tillers in Pennsylvania and Maryland this week and posting photos and information on Twitter and Facebook.
I now know that what I was calling no-till in the early 1970s wasn’t what many would classify as no-till, but my farming operation now certainly fits the definition. Only the coulters on my no-till planter and drill crack the surface of my fields today.
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