Kansas State University Extension shares some important control suggestions for the sorghum midge, which caused widespread damage to grain sorghum crops this year in a break with past precedent.
Kansas grower Roger Black says quitting the plow for no-till improved his soils, allowed expansion with adding machinery and bolstered his custom enterprise income.
When Roger Black switched to no-tilling in south-central Kansas more than two decades ago, he was searching for ways to reduce erosion in his silty-loam bottomland fields, as well as reduce fuel and labor costs.
The EPA has approved sorghum oil as an eligible feedstock under the Renewable Fuel Standard, a significant step toward leveling the playing field for ethanol plants extracting oil from sorghum.
Oklahoma no-tiller Jimmy Kinder, recently given the Leonard Wyatt Memorial Outstanding Cooperator Award, is not only finding success with his own diversified farm but working with fellow farmers to help them achieve their financial, production, stewardship and quality-of-life goals.
The results are in for the National Sorghum Producers Yield Contest and we’ll see how no-tilled submissions stacked up against conventional and reduced tillage. I think you’ll like what the data show.
Josh Lofton, cropping systems specialist at Oklahoma State University Extension, shares some lessons learned this year about the grain sorghum crop that you can put to use in the next growing season.
Studies about cover crops from many of the semi-arid Great Plains have been cautionary or conditional, owing to potential concerns about soil moisture or nutrient use from covers seeded ahead of cash crops.
Adjusting to earlier planting dates for sorghum could help growers get the crop emerged and cut before potential sugarcane aphid damage is heaviest, says Texas A&M AgriLife Extension entomologist Ed Bynum.
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No-tiller David Groff from Cedar Meadow Farm in Holtwood, Pa., talks about the farm’s experience this year no-tilling hemp and the cover-crop mix and fertility plan they followed during the growing season.
The 28th annual National No-Tillage Conference offers a mix of general sessions, No-Till Classrooms and invaluable No-Till Roundtables. Just as important is the chance to profit from unlimited hallway networking with the most innovative, forward-thinking minds in no-till during next January's event in St. Louis!
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