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Four Keys to Successfully No-Tilling Tough, Wet Soils

Ross Bishop describes how avoiding tillage, getting more aggressive with fertility, seeding cover crops and making equipment modifications have helped him grow higher yields in a challenging environment.
Ask Ross Bishop to describe his 21-year experience with no-till and he will sum it up for you in four words:
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Step-by-Step Approach Yields Early Success with No-Till Transition

Bruce Nelson is seeing improved drainage, stable yields and more organic matter after parking his tillage equipment and focusing on soil health and structure.
For Bruce Nelson, transitioning his farm to no-till wasn’t just about making adjustments to equipment, inputs or herbicides. It required a change in mindset that clashed with what he learned from his father and what he saw at surrounding farms.
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New Tools and Technologies Offer More Precision, Efficiency

Among the many new products introduced this fall, no-tillers now have more options for fertilizer application, down-pressure systems and spraying.
Among the many products introduced this fall by agricultural companies, precision and efficiency seem to be the two main themes. Several manufacturers recently unveiled products that give growers more control over planting and nutrient applications, while accomplishing fieldwork even faster than before.
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No-Till Out-Yields Tillage in Tough Conditions

Two long-term tillage studies in Indiana and Illinois prove no-till can yield as well as tillage and perform even better in periods of drought or heat stress.
More than 70 years ago, Ed Faulkner wrote on the opening page of his book, Plowman’s Folly, that, “no one has ever advanced a scientific reason for plowing.”
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No-Till, Cover Crops and Wheat Pull Farm Out of a Yield Rut

Yields had stalled for Dick and Chris Nissen until no-till, tiling, cover crops and wheat helped them manage water issues and improve their soils.
Our farm hit a plateau in the 1990s. Yields were flat and we just weren’t making the gains we thought we should be. It’s not that we sought out no-till as the magic solution; we just knew we had to try something different, as conventional tillage wasn’t cutting it.
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Know Your Soils, Improve Their Quality to Help Soybean Fertility

Corn is usually the main focus of a grower’s fertility program, but no-tillers should pay just as much attention to their soybeans by knowing their soil quality and understanding nutrient availability.
Do you really need to fertilize your no-till soybeans? Can’t you just let them scavenge for what’s left in the soil after corn?
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Bigger Weed Battles Coming

At last summer's University of Illinois agronomy day, Patrick Tranel offered a half dozen weed management predictions that could keep no-tillers awake at night in the future. As reported by Tom Doran in Illinois AgriNews, Tranel says the weed challenges you’ll be facing 5 years from now will be totally different than today.
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