Articles Tagged with ''crop rotation''

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[Podcast] What’s Possible When You Commit to Soil Health

In the latest episode of the podcast, brought to you by Bio Till Cover Crops., Austin, Minn., no-tiller Tom Cotter shares how to balance the positive and negative effect of practices for weed control, make cover crops pay, coordinate livestock grazing with crop rotations and find markets for all that’s produced.
In this No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Bio-Till Cover Crops, Austin, Minn., no-tiller Tom Cotter shares how to balance the positive and negative effect of practices for weed control, make cover crops pay, coordinate livestock grazing with crop rotations and find markets for all that’s produced.
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Cropping ‘Between the Rows’ Builds Soil Health, Farm Flexibility

Tom Cotter says interseeding blended cover crops boosts root-zone diversity in complex no-till & organic crop rotation schedules, & brings in grazing income of $50 an acre per year

Tom Cotter says interseeding blended cover crops boosts root-zone diversity in complex no-till & organic crop rotation schedules, & brings in grazing income of $50 an acre per year


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No-Till, Strip-Till and Cover Crops Research Journal - March 2026

Each month, the conservation ag group at Cornell University offers an analysis of the latest scientific papers dealing with conservation agriculture research from around the world. For this on-going web series, our editors will be selecting several research papers from the Cornell list that will be of special interest to North American no-tillers, strip-tillers and cover croppers.

In this edition:

  • Sixty years of crop diversification with perennials improves yields more than no-tillage in Ohio grain cropping systems
  • Conservation Tillage Practices on GHG Emissions, Soil Health and Overall Agricultural Sustainability
  • Long-term continuous no-till corn-soybean systems: Examining soil carbon sequestration and nitrogen accumulation across various pools
  • Assessing the agricultural, environmental, and economic effects of crop diversity management: A comprehensive review on crop rotation and cover crop practices
  • Cover Crops Optimize Soil Fertility and Soybean Productivity in the Cerrado of MATOPIBA, Brazil
  • Short-term no-tillage improves soil water retention and maintains soil aeration at high moisture conditions despite reduced macroporosity
  • Tillage Radish as Cover Crop Improves Soil Health Indicators Depending on Pedoclimatic Conditions.

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9 Things Learned from No-Till Innovator Dwayne Beck

Here are some of the most important tips shared by the former manager for the Dakota Lakes Research Farm to help growers turn their modern-day operation into one that is sustainable and profitable
Dwayne Beck has always preached working with nature instead of against it, which shines through in many of the talks the former manager of the Dakota Lakes Research Farm in Pierre, S.D. has given at agricultural events across the world.
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International No-Till, Strip-Till and Cover Crops Research Journal – November 2024

Each month, the conservation ag group at Cornell University offers an analysis of the latest scientific papers dealing with conservation agriculture research from around the world. For this on-going web series, our editors will be selecting several research papers from the Cornell list that will be of special interest to North American no-tillers, strip-tillers and cover croppers.

In this edition:

  • Further Adoption of Conservation Tillage Can Increase Maize Yields in the Western U.S. Corn Belt
  • A New Theory for Soil Health
  • Weed Communities after Decades of Mineral Fertilization and Tillage Treatments in a Corn–Soybean Rotation
  • Changes in Soil Microbial Parameters after Herbicide Application in Soils under Conventional Tillage and Non-Tillage

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