No-till cotton adoption in the Great Plains isn’t anything to write home about. But two no-tillers in Oklahoma and Texas are making the practice work while many of their neighbors are zeroing out the crop.
The 20th Class of No-Till Innovators is being honored for their research, teaching and front-line, field-management practices that encouraged no-till adoption and advanced soil health principles.
Three individuals and one organization are being recognized as the 20th Class of No-Till Innovators for leading the adoption and advancement of no-till at the 24th annual National No-Tillage Conference.
A 2015 inventory found 46% of South Dakota cropland uses no-till practices, and 65% of cropland uses a cropping system that leaves at least 30% of residue coverage, the NRCS reports.
The no-till movement seems to be going strong across South Dakota. That’s the conclusion, at least, of this year’s South Dakota Cropping Systems Inventory, which is a statistical ‘snapshot in time’ for the types of cropping systems farmers are using in the state.
When No-Till Farmer got its start in 1972, one of the first things we did was determine the number of no-tilled acres in the U.S. To do so, we asked the state agronomists of the Soil Conservation Service (now the NRCS) for the data.
No-tiller Steve Pope is working with cover crops and interseeding on the family’s Oklahoma farm to improve crop diversity, reduce weed pressure and rebuild worn-out soils.
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Capturing sunlight and keeping living roots in the ground as long as possible is the goal of Beaver Dam, Ws., no-tiller Marty Weiss. The co-chair of the Dodge County Farmers for Healthy Soil & Healthy Water talks about strip-cropping and interseeding cover crops at a field day in the summer of 2020.
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