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How Will The New Farm Bill Impact No Tillers?

Since many no-tillers already qualify for payments, you’ll be first on the list for 2002 farm bill payments.

By Frank Lessiter posted on August 1, 2002 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Equipment

Since most no-tillers probably already qualify for payments, the new 2002 farm bill offers plenty of opportunities and should lead to further expansion of no-tilled acres. But if you're just no-tilling corn and soybeans, don' expect that rotation to automatically meet the necessary government criteria in all states.

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No-Till Success Boils Down To Cost Per Acre

You have to be willing to experiment if you’re going to innovate.

By Todd Intermill posted on August 1, 2002 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101, Seeding & Planting

I'd make a really poor conventional farmer. I'd get bored out of my gourd. I never liked cultivators and I've always said they should rename them "corn killers."

Use New Farm Bill To Expand No-Till

No-tillers are already ahead of the curve in making the transition to lower-cost methods of farming.

By Frank Lessiter posted on August 1, 2002 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101

As a family farm manager and longtime participant in farm policy development, Dick Wittman has mixed emotions about how the new farm bill will influence the behavior of no-tillers.

Try These 14 Proven Strategies For Successfully No-Tilling Corn

Think through the entire process before you start, don’t overlook anything, make sure the system flows together, address problems and find the needed solutions.

By Lynn Grooms posted on April 1, 2002 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101

While the acres have leveled off nationally since the mid-1990s, a lot of farmers are having tremendous success with no-tilled corn.

On The No-Till Soapbox With Jerry Crew

Views on compaction, biotechnology, ripping, erosion and plenty more.

By Jordanna Smida posted on November 1, 2001 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101, Seeding & Planting, Soil Health

No-tiller Jerry Crew may be outspoken and not always tactful, but he always means to be respectful when he steps onto his no-till soapbox.

Use Incentives To Expand No-Till Acres

Northeast Nebraska program boosts no-till interest, acres and yields by going from 8,382 acres in 1999 to 120,000 no-tilled acres this year.

By Jordanna Smida posted on October 1, 2001 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Precision Agriculture

When funding for conservation practices began to tighten in the Lower Elkhorn Natural Resource District (LENRD) in northeast Nebraska, a collaborative effort and new incentive program introduced more farmers to no-till and increased no-till acres.

No-Tilling Fibers

They aren't your normal no-tilled crops, but growing industrial hemp and kenaf could earn dollars as cash crops or cover crops

By Jordanna Smida posted on September 1, 2001 | Posted in Cover Crops

When Steve Groff began looking at ways to boost his no-till income, fiber crops in theory, appeared to be a profitable possibility.

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More Say “No” To Tillage

By Frank Lessiter posted on January 1, 2001 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

For the first time ever, no-till acres in the United States have broken the 50 million acre mark. The results shown in the No-Till-Age chart at left indicate farmers no-tilled 50,787,792 acres last year.

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