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8th Annual Benchmark Study: No-Tillers Trim Fertilizer Costs

No-tillers intend to cut back even more on fertility this year by using less nitrogen for corn, but they plan an increase in fertilizer for soybeans.
When it comes to yearly farm expenses, fertilizer is always one of the big-ticket items — sometimes the largest. But after seeing a slight cutback on fertilizer expenses in 2014, No-Till Farmer readers stayed under their estimated budget of $80,235, spending an average of $75,555 for fertilizer per farm in 2015.
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8th Annual Benchmark Study: No-Till Soybeans Set Yield Record, Corn Remains Steady

The average no-till corn yield fell just 1 bushel shy of last year’s record, while no-till soybeans hit a new high with a 53-bushel average.
While weather conditions varied greatly across the nation last spring — with warm, dry planting weather in the Upper Midwest and cool, wet conditions that caused delays in the Eastern Corn Belt — no-tillers still saw one of their best years in terms of yield.
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Progress has Certainly Been Made in Overcoming Cover Crop Concerns with Crop Insurance, but There’s Still a Need for Rule Change Refinements

Over the last half dozen years, the No-Till Farmer editors have written extensively about cover crop concerns leading to disastrous results with crop insurance rules. With the many benefits of no-till and cover crops, we certainly don’t want to see growers losing crop insurance coverage because of significant differences in rule interpretation among government and crop insurance staffers.
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More Tips About Using Cover-Crop Mixes in No-Till Systems

Twenty-one more no-tillers share how they’re using cover crop ‘cocktails’ of every size to improve soil tilth, shade out weeds, capture and recycle soil nutrients and help reduce erosion.
Twenty-one more no-tillers share how they’re using cover crop ‘cocktails’ of every size to improve soil tilth, shade out weeds, capture and recycle soil nutrients and help reduce erosion.
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Machine Seeds Cover Crops, Injects Hog Manure in One Pass

Blain, Pa., no-tiller Virgil Gutshall Sr. says the rigged-up tanker puts manure nutrients in the root zone in an environmentally responsible manner
A small family-owned hog operation in Pennsylvania is the mastermind behind a rig that sidedresses corn with liquid hog manure and seeds cover crops in one pass — possibly the first machine of its kind in the U.S.
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