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Keep Yields From Cooling Off

Cover crops can offset the major causes of yield drag in fields making the transition to no-till and improve the soil biology of fields lacking crop and residue diversity

By Martha Ostendorf posted on May 1, 2010 | Posted in Cover Crops, Nutrient Management, Soil Health

If you had to scavenge for food from Thanksgiving to Easter, chances are you wouldn’t be very productive and may not survive. The same is true of soil microbes.

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Not A Bad Year For No-Tillers… All Things Considered

While 2009 brought a decrease in net farm income, No-Till Farmer readers weathered a year where grain prices dropped dramatically

By Darrell Bruggink posted on May 1, 2010 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101, Cover Crops, Nutrient Management

Strip-Tilling And No-Tilling Sweet Corn

April 1, 2010 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101

Source: By Andy McGuire, Washington State University

With everyone from USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack to the mainstream media and celebrity chefs touting locally grown food, growing and selling sweet corn to city dwellers who pay $6 or more for a dozen ears may be a profitable niche market for strip-tillers.

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Managing Residue In Narrower Corn Rows

Properly size upper stalks, leave lower stalk standing, move trash with row cleaners and plant between old rows for great stands

By Jim Leverich posted on February 1, 2010 | Posted in Residue Management, Precision Agriculture

Managing residue in any no-till system can be a challenge with today’s high-yielding transgenic hybrids.

Spring 2009, Take Two In 2010

Experts offer advice for no-tillers once again contending with a slew of issues this spring stemming from a late, wet harvest

By Martha Ostendorf posted on February 1, 2010 | Posted in Crop Protection, Residue Management

Déjà vu. No-tillers probably felt it this fall as they battled rain and then raced to beat the snow getting crops harvested, just like 2008.

Cutting-Edge Planting And Seeding Equipment

Options, flexibility and precision are hallmarks of the new planters and drills unveiled at the 2009 Farm Progress and Big Iron shows

By Phil Needham posted on February 1, 2010 | Posted in Equipment, Precision Agriculture

The rapid rise in the cost of seed and fertilizer in the past year served as a wake-up call for no-tillers, reminding them that controlling input costs is often the difference between being profitable or not.

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Bending Equipment, Agronomics To Fit His Needs Pays

South Dakota no-tiller Terry Huss modifies new equipment to fit his dry conditions and goes against the trend by growing wheat with corn and soybeans.

By Ron Ross posted on December 1, 2009 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101, Seeding & Planting, Equipment

It doesn’t seem possible that I’ve been no-tilling for 30 years. I don’t know if you would call me a pioneer, but no-till was almost unheard of in north central South Dakota in 1979.

Settling On Spring Strip-Till

Iowa corn grower Jeff Reints has used full tillage, no-till, zone-tillage and fall strip-till, but he has settled on strips for raising corn.

By Darrell Bruggink posted on November 1, 2009 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming

Iowa corn grower Jeff Reints has used full tillage, no-till, zone-tillage and fall strip-till, but he has settled on spring strips for raising corn.

Planting Into Living Cover Yields Picket-Fence Crop

Mellow soils, no compaction and moisture management are all benefits that a Missouri farmer realizes when no-tilling into a living cover crop of cereal rye and wheat.

By Martha Ostendorf posted on September 1, 2009 | Posted in Cover Crops

Hallsville, MO., no-tiller Frank Martin quit raising hogs in 2001 and turned his focus to doing a better job of raising crops — with an emphasis on reducing soil loss. For him, that meant going no-till and integrating cover crops into his system.

Father And Daughter Make Great No-Till Team

She’s a crop scout, he has 40 years of no-till experience and together they win with non-GMO soybeans and reduced herbicide rates.

By Martha Ostendorf posted on August 1, 2009 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Residue Management

Every youth that has heard stories of their parents walking to school uphill both ways in waist-deep snow knows that things were more difficult in the past.

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