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Less Is More with Cereal Rye and No-Till Cotton

Researchers found that reducing cereal rye and cotton seeding rates could save cotton producers time and money while still maintaining the same production levels for no-till cotton.

By Jessica Ryan posted on May 24, 2025 | Posted in Cover Crops, Residue Management, Seeding & Planting

Although cereal rye benefits can improve soil health and profitability, cotton producers must spend time and money on seed and equipment to plant and maintain it.

Equipment Adjustments Help Keep No-Tiller Successful

Farmer shows the advantages of using no-till on his farm

By Nicole Heslip and Hayden Lessiter posted on August 6, 2024

Source: Brownfield Ag News

A lifelong no-tiller says equipment adjustments have helped improve his soil health and profitability.

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Nebraska Study: Producers Evaluate Practices to Increase Soybean Yield, Profit

April 26, 2022 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

Source: University of Nebraska

As planting gets started, you may be considering what management practices will increase soybean yields. In 2021, Nebraska farmers completed a three-year on-farm research study which evaluated a suite of management practices that could increase soybean yield and profitability.

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Profitability Strategies: Earning with Indigo Carbon [Webinar]

October 15, 2020 | Posted in Cover Crops, Seeding & Planting

If you have questions about how Indigo’s soil health programs can help you maximize profitability, tune in for our overview in a webinar with a regenerative farmer. Gain insights to quickly achieve your agronomic and financial goals. [To view any of our webinar replays, you must be logged in with a free user account.]

Trimble Connected Farm Field App Measures Field Profitability

January 20, 2015 | Posted in Precision Agriculture

Trimble announced it will be adding a profit and loss reporting feature to its Connected Farm Field application — a Web-based field data management tool where growers can manage field boundaries, task data, crop health maps and precipitation data.

Yellow Field Peas Could Boost No-Till Profits In High Plains

Yellow field peas provide High Plains no-tillers with an excellent wheat transition crop that helps build soil quality and, with recent market developments, have the potential for profitability.

By Mark Parker posted on February 1, 2014 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Water Management

No-tillers across the Nebraska Panhandle and surrounding High Plains region are challenged by low rainfall and high summer temperatures. It’s a double-whammy that limits cropping intensity, as well as crop value.

Variable Rate Technology Plants Seeds Of Profitability

Once they commit to the practice, no-tillers often find that managing planting populations on the go can cut seed costs and maximize yield.

By Jack Zemlicka posted on November 1, 2013 | Posted in Precision Agriculture, Seeding & Planting

The global push to increase crop production and keep pace with population projections underlines the importance for no-tillers to make every seed count.

From the Desk of John Dobberstein

How Sharing Ideas Can Help You No-Till Better

By John Dobberstein posted on July 31, 2013

For an established no-tiller to find that “higher gear” and push their operation to a higher level of profitability, it might be necessary to step outside of the daily grind to find a source of new ideas.

Weather Challenges No-Tillers' Profitability

By Darrell Bruggink posted on May 1, 2013 | Posted in Equipment

Thank goodness for high grain prices — and crop insurance, too. A topsy-turvy 2012 saw both the highs and lows of choosing a career as a farmer.

Implement Guidance Paves The Way To Profitability

Technology that keeps field implements in line is gaining momentum as no-tillers and strip-tillers see increased yields, and lower input costs, through improved accuracy with field operations.

By Jack Zemlicka posted on May 1, 2013 | Posted in Equipment, Precision Agriculture

When Jim Irwin began strip-tilling in 1996, one of his biggest frustrations was being unable to precisely place seed in the strips he formed in the fall.

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