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Healthy Soil Serves as Insurance During Extreme Weather

June 20, 2015 | Posted in Soil Health, Water Management

A new report from the National Wildlife Federation details how investing in healthy soil can protect farmers from drought and flood impacts.

No-Tilling Could Improve Outcomes With Saline Soils

By John Dobberstein posted on November 13, 2014 | Posted in Soil Health, Water Management

If you’re struggling with saline soils, no-till is probably a better management option than tillage.

Four Harvest Considerations For Variable Soybean Maturity

By Shawn Conley posted on September 15, 2014 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Soil Health, Water Management

Source: The Soy Report

Variable soil types, knolls, flooding and drought have left many growers with extreme in-field variability of soybean maturity. There are areas in fields where the soybean seed is 13% or less moisture adjacent to areas with green seed.

No-Tilling Is No Remedy For A Shortage Of Moisture

While finding ways to save moisture in a drought is important, the real benefits of no-till are most apparent with normal weather conditions.

By Frank Lessiter posted on November 1, 2012 | Posted in Water Management

Most no-tillers will agree that no-till saved considerable moisture last summer when compared to their neighbors using more intensive tillage systems. For many, the extra moisture resulted in higher yields and income in a growing season that was far from ideal.

Effects Of Flooding Or Ponding On Young Corn

May 13, 2012 | Posted in Water Management

Source: By Bob Nielsen, Purdue University's Pest & Crop Newsletter

Recent intense rainfall events (technically referred to as "toad stranglers" or "goose drownders") have caused flooding of low-lying corn fields or ponding in poorly drained swales within fields.

Management Considerations For Post-Flooded Soils

November 9, 2011 | Posted in Soil Health, Water Management

Source: Iowa State University

Farmland in western Iowa and eastern Nebraska affected by flooding early this year and not planted to any crop has potential economic and soil environmental consequences if the soils are left unattended.

No-Till Blamed For Home Flooding

The key is to properly manage no-till crop residue to avoid complaints from neighbors.

By Frank Lessiter posted on September 1, 2008 | Posted in Water Management

When the creek behind a number of homes located along a subdivision road in Springfield, Ohio, overran its banks earlier this summer, corn stalks clogged drainage tiles and culverts.

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