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Soil Health in Field and Forage Crop Production

A publication to help farmers understand and improve their soil health through no-till systems.
| Posted in No-Till Farming 101, Cover Crops, Nutrient Management, Soil Health
Productive agriculture depends on healthy soil. Soil guarantees that nutrients are made available in sufficient amounts during a plant’s life cycle and it holds water that is then available to plants. It also provides many critical ecosystem functions that are necessary for life. In this free publication from Penn State University, you’ll learn how you can protect this valuable resource through no-till.
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Alfalfa, Cereal Rye Bring Added Benefits to Long-Term No-Till

Milledgeville, Ill., no-tiller Norm Deets finds alfalfa helps speed up the transition to no-till and cover crops hold and build soil in areas prone to erosion.
By Laura Barrera posted on March 14, 2016 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101, Cover Crops, Nutrient Management
Being the “scourge” of the neighborhood was one of the biggest challenges Norm Deets faced when he started no-tilling. But after 30 years of committing to the practice, he knows the benefits outweigh the nice look of perfectly tilled soils.
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3 Tips on No-Tilling ‘Up North’

By Laura Barrera posted on August 4, 2015 | Posted in Seeding & Planting
Driving through southeastern Minnesota earlier this year, it was clear that no-till was the exception, not the rule. Cold, wet soils can be a challenge for no-till, but the working up of rolling ground and steep slopes that I saw also means there's greater erosion.
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Video: Erosion Issues on the Great Plains

July 8, 2015 | Posted in Soil Health
Dave Franzen, soils specialist at North Dakota State University Extension, talks about historic soil losses in the Great Plains, the losses still being seen today, and conservation efforts in place today to help prevent erosion. including tree rows as windbreaks and conservation tillage methods are used across the state to prevent erosion.
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[Video] The Financial Cost of Erosion

April 13, 2015 | Posted in Soil Health
Newell Kitchen, a soil scientist with the USDA-Agricultural Research Service in Columbia, Mo., talks about how he and colleagues saw a relationship between yield productivity and erosion on a field they were studying.
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Cover Cropping 2,500 Acres

By Laura Barrera posted on March 17, 2015 | Posted in Cover Crops
Tom Gasper of North Vernon, Ind., talks about the benefits his family's no-till operation is seeing from using cover crops on more than 2,000 acres, the species they’re using and why they decided to have their covers aerially seeded.
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