When no-tillers are looking to boost crop yields, it’s tempting to search for the “latest and greatest” product to find the solution. But sometimes farming from a job isn’t the answer. There could be some elusive reasons yields aren’t hitting expectations.
No, “down under” does not refer to Australia. How is life under the surface of your crop fields? Imagine being one of the critters that live in, not on, your soil.
Weeds continue to be one of the most yield-limiting factors in no-till crop production, but thankfully, there are new ways of dealing with them when the right tools are sought out and used.
Our Biggest fear in our system has long been drought conditions. A significant portion of the acres we farm are light, sandy soils underlaid with gravel. Periods of drought can quickly become devastating to our crops.
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Only a handful of such products were on the show floor several years ago, but at the 2025 show in Denver there were dozens of firms — including offerings from major crop protection players.
Conservative assumptions show a first-year 95% ROI on full farm adoption of precision ag tools. Sticker shock may apply, but you can bank returns in year two, says Iowa farmer & dealer.
Corn and soybean farmer Adam Gittins cautions strip-tillers to control their natural reaction to “sticker shock” when shopping for precision agriculture technology, and to realize the rapid ROI such tools can provide.
Regional aerial service Heinen Brothers is part of the commercialization process of Pyka, a young California startup’s global reach into unmanned aerial application platforms
Growers in the western Corn Belt and parts of the Southern Plains may notice a strange, slow, high-wing spray plane at work this summer over row-crop fields and some pastures – a sight that likely will become commonplace soon.
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On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Titan International, we catch up with young Kentucky no-tiller Quint Pottinger to see how he autonomously planted his entire crop in 2026. Senior editor John Dobberstein checks in from the CTIC Conservation in Action Tour in Scotland Neck, N.C., where no-tiller Zeb Winslow III talks about his multi-species cover crop program.
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