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2006: No-Till — Your Best Chance For Success

Jan. 11-14, St. Louis • 702 attendees
By Frank Lessiter posted on January 14, 2017
Frank Martin shared his ideas on getting into his fields extra early by looking at the possibility of no-tilling corn into living cover crops. The Hallsville, Mo., grower will burn down the cover crop 2-4 weeks after planting.
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2005: Charting A New No-Till Course

Jan. 12-15, Cincinnati • 635 attendees
By Frank Lessiter posted on January 14, 2017
Dan Towery called on growers to shoot for higher profitability by transitioning to continuous no-till. The former staffer at the Conservation Tillage Information Center estimated only 10-15% of U.S. cropland has been continuously no-tilled for over 5 years.
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2004: No-Till Knowledge Is Power

Jan. 7-10, Des Moines • 680 attendees
By Frank Lessiter posted on January 14, 2017
A tractor driver’s talents can be critical to the success or failure of strip-tilling, maintains Bill Rohrs. The head of the Conservation Action Project in Findlay, Ohio, says an efficient driver must be able to build a mound that will still have an adequate height in the spring, leaving a strip that will be drier and preparing an air pocket-free seeding area to increase plant germination.
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2003: No-Tilling For A More Prosperous Tomorrow

Jan. 8-11, Indianapolis • 666 attendees
By Frank Lessiter posted on January 14, 2017
Try to keep your no-till planting speed at less than 5 mph, suggests Scott Davidson. The no-tiller from Bethany, Ill. (an attendee of all 25 National No-Tillage Conferences), says most planters are designed to drop a 30,000 population at 4½ mph.
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2002: Bigger, Better, Bolder

Jan. 9-12, St. Louis • 682 attendees
By Frank Lessiter posted on January 14, 2017
Ten years of results from Marion Calmer’s extensive on-farm research studies didn’t show any economic advantage for soybeans planted in late April or early May with plant populations of over 175,000 seeds per acre.
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2001: Expanding The No-Till Toolbox

Jan. 10-13, Cincinnati • 720 attendees
By Frank Lessiter posted on January 14, 2017
No-till seeding equipment must be able to handle wet soils, heavy residue and soils that have an existing structure built around intensive tillage to get uniform and vigorous stands, says Matt Hagny.
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2000: Tough Times ... Tough Decisions ... Prospering With No-Till

Jan. 12-15, Des Moines • 715 attendees
By Frank Lessiter posted on January 14, 2017
With the heavy soils in northwestern Ohio, Joe Nester likes to no-till with what he calls a defensive soybean program. The crop consultant from Antwerp, Ohio, says Roundup Ready soybean fields that are no-tilled need to be scouted more often than fields planted to traditional varieties. Just because these fields are free of weeds today doesn’t mean they will be next week.
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1999: No-Till ... Your Gateway To The Future

Jan. 21-23, St. Louis • 660 attendees
January 14, 2017
Jim Andrew says corn prices may be so low that the cost of applying extra nitrogen may not be covered by the additional yields. As a result, the Jefferson, Iowa, no-tiller says nitrate tests are critical to avoid runoff into the nation’s water supplies and to protect the environment while earning the best possible returns.
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1998: No-Till ... The Future Is Now

Jan. 22-24, Indianapolis • 660 attendees
By Frank Lessiter posted on January 14, 2017
With long-term no-till, Lloyd Murdock says growers can increase organic matter levels to a point where soils are very difficult to compact. The University of Kentucky soil scientist urges no-tillers not to resort to rotational tillage after a few years when problems arise. He predicts a number of benefits for no-till that won’t happen for 12-15 years down the road.
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1997: More Profitable No-Till Strategies

Jan. 16-18, Des Moines • 680 attendees
By Frank Lessiter posted on January 14, 2017
John Walker told attendees deep-banding starch has the potential to increase yields with almost any no-till crop. The agronomist at Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho, told attendees to use granulated starch rather than powdered starch, mix it with starter fertilizer and deep band the mixture with the planter at a rate of at least 20 pounds of granulated starch per acre.
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