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Cotton Growers Turn to No-Till, Regenerative Practices to Improve Soil Health

March 16, 2023 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101

Bob Walker, a no-tiller from Tennessee, and Sledge Taylor, a no-tiller from Mississippi, discuss the practices they are implementing to continuously improve soil health and the impacts they are seeing.

Soil Regen Announces Regenerative Certification

February 11, 2022 | Posted in Soil Health

The Regenerative Verified process gives producers a way to verify management strategies with factual data.

Digging Into the Principles of Regenerative Ag

By Dan Crummett, Angela Lovell, Martha Mintz, and Loretta Sorensen posted on March 12, 2021 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101, Residue Management, Nutrient Management, Soil Health

Based on the principles of building healthy soil, regenerative ag aims to not only sustain farm productivity but to actually work with nature to regenerate the soil, increase biodiversity and enhance the farming ecosystem.

Long-Term Tillage and Soil CO2 Fluxes

March 7, 2018 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101, Residue Management, Soil Health

Source: University of Nebraska

A research fellow at the University of Nebraska compares no-till and several different kinds of tillage operations to measure how soil disturbance affects the loss of soil carbon.

Revised Phosphorus Index Can Help Curb Agricultural Runoff

March 1, 2018 | Posted in Water Management

Source: Ohio State University

The index has significant water quality implications statewide, considering that misapplied phosphorus has a high likelihood of degradation Ohio’s surface water and is a major contributor to harmful algal blooms, experts say.

National No-Tillage Conference Updates

Building a Thriving Soil Biological Community at the 2018 National No-Tillage Conference

NRCS Soil Health Division team leader from Lexington, Ky., to present on healthy soil ecosystems and their important soil functions at the 2018 National No-Tillage Conference.

November 21, 2017

NRCS Soil Health Division team leader from Lexington, Ky., to present on healthy soil ecosystems and their important soil functions at the 2018 National No-Tillage Conference.

The Five Principles of Soil Health

March 8, 2017 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101, Soil Health

Source: South Dakota State University Extension

Jay Fuhrer of the NRCS explains why soil armor, minimizing soil disturbance, plant diversity, continual live plant roots and livestock integration are all key to soil health.

Build Up Your No-Till Soils and Earthworms Will Come

Reducing tillage, adopting controlled traffic, seeding cover crops and improving drainage can help no-tillers build populations of these nutrient-laden subterranean creatures.

By Clair Urbain posted on December 8, 2014 | Posted in Soil Health

It's kind of a "chicken or the egg" question: Which comes first, soil health or earthworms?

Shop Built Sidedressing Tool Brings In-Season Flexibility

Strip-tiller Larry Tombaugh combined an old cultivator, SpikeWheel units and a CDS-John Blue pump into a unit that dispenses nitrogen with low soil disturbance.

By John Dobberstein posted on September 1, 2013 | Posted in Equipment, Soil Health

Foreseeing a day when the government will simply forbid fall nitrogen applications, Larry Tombaugh hit the shop last winter to get ahead of the game.

Manure Injection Tool Minimizes Soil Disturbance

An Iowa no-tiller has developed a new tool that could help growers apply manure to fields without moving too much residue.

By Mark Parker posted on September 1, 2011 | Posted in Equipment

Injecting manure into soils with heavy cornstalk residue has long been a challenge for Iowa no-tiller Phil Reed.

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