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Legendary No-Till Advice

From Dust to Dirt: Let’s Focus on Keeping More Soil

A cover crop mix with plants that are efficient with water, such as millet & sunnhemp, can provide soil protection that makes available rainfall effective & reduces soil evaporation

You might think these comments were about the dust storm on March 18 in Kansas, just east of the Colorado border. But no, the opening paragraph was written 90 years ago, on March 28, 1935 by Will Rogers. 


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Is Faster Better? What the Data Says About High-Speed Planting

With more volatile weather patterns & fewer days for field work, no-tillers may wonder if a high-speed planting season is worth the investment.
Planting season sets the tone for the rest of the growing years, and for no-tillers there is increased emphasis due to the challenge of planting through residue rather than a ‘perfect’ worked seed bed.
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What I've Learned from No-Tilling

Finding Efficiency Drives No-Till Decisions

From adopting no-till to the latest sprayer technology, efficiencies gained weigh heavy on this Kansas operation
THE RUNNING JOKE in our area is there are only about 5 minutes each year when the timing is perfect to work some of our heavy clay soils and not make clods. In the late ’70s, we made the move to just not till ahead of spring-planted crops.
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Conservation Titans, Cutting Edge Practices Highlighted on CTIC Tour

From ethanol to strip-till to the eye in the sky, Conservation in Action Tour attendees learned about the various pieces of the puzzle for a modern conservation farming system
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — From ethanol to cover crops to equipment innovations, the changing, dynamic world of conservation agriculture was on full display as the Conservation Action Tour that trekked across South Dakota.
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Journey of Learning Leads to No-Till Success

Kurt Stiefvater & family worked through a rough transition period to build a more diversified, resilient no-till operation with soil health as a main focus

During a recent stop on the Conservation in Action tour, Kurt Stiefvater was handed the microphone to talk about the no-till operation he and his family have built over the last quarter century. 


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5 Ways to Keep the “Billion-Dollar Bug” from Stealing Corn Yields

“When you approach the rootworm as just a problem that has to be solved, you’re not taking into account the animal’s biology,” Ann Marie Journey says. “You’re hitting it just at certain points or with certain methods or controls, and you’re not allowing yourself in effect to have a conversation to gain insight back from the rootworms about what it is that makes them successful in any given place."
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Online Extras: June 2025 Issue

Web-exclusive content for this issue includes:
  • Multimedia Coverage of Commodity Classic
  • No-Till Farmer Multimedia
  • No-Till Farmer’s Best of the Web

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Drone-Applied Crop Protection May Face New Labeling Requirements

Current EPA oversight on UAV-applied crop chemicals will likely get more focused, & crop protection companies are in the forefront with studies to enable more efficient labeling procedures
While regulations, or lack thereof, governing the use of crop protection chemicals applied by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) vary widely across the globe, U.S. growers and applicators are currently operating under a grace period of oversight. That isn’t likely to last long.
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