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Equipment

New Tire Technology Can Lead to 7% Yield Bump

Very high flexion tires & central tire inflation systems reduce compaction & increase yields significantly, expert says
Some amount of compaction is inevitable, even for no-tillers, but there are ways to minimize it by using new technologies developed by the ag tire industry over the past decade.
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Seeding & Planting

Wide-Row Corn Opens Up Opportunity for Soil Health Improvements, Additional Profits

Researchers emphasize importance of hybrid selection for success with wide rows in no-till
A life-long student of interdisciplinary corn production is what C. LeRoy Deichman calls himself. His long career led him to research plant physiology, genetics and pathology, and to invent a novel cropping system to increase crop productivity.
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Soil Health

Focusing Solely on No-Till Misses the Point

Father of biological farming, Gary Zimmer, shares his controversial philosophy on no-till and common misconceptions about good soil health
Regenerative agriculture has many different definitions. Practices such as no-till, cover crops, grazing and other soil health improvement strategies are often placed under different umbrellas of conservation agriculture, sustainable agriculture and several other similar titles.
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Strip-Till

Strip-Till & Banded Fertilizer Boost ROI

Farmer’s switch to strip-till pays off in the form of higher corn yields & better bottom line
Since becoming the sole operators of their family’s Homewood Farms in 2000, Dan Lane and his wife, Jennifer, have used precision practices and conservation tillage to significantly boost corn and soybean yields as well as overall farm income.
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Equipment

What You Can Expect to Pay for a Used Self-Propelled Sprayer

IronSolutions guide values model year 2021-22 units from 7 manufacturers
IronSolutions provided this equipment value guide for high-clearance sprayers from Apache, Case IH, Hagie, John Deere, Miller, New Holland and RoGator. All of the sprayers included in the selection are model year 2021-22 units.
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What I've Learned From No-Tilling

Finding & Pushing No-Till Boundaries

Experiment with organic no-till leads to disappointing results but valuable insights about building on no-tillage
A strong sense of curiosity, a high pain threshold and a short memory have likely contributed a fair amount to navigating the failures and successes I’ve experienced experimenting with zero-till — and beyond — in my years of farming in Minto, MB.
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Conservation Ag Fellowship

Forward-Thinking Farming Leverages Relay Cropping, Technology

2023 Conservation Ag Operator Fellow Loran Steinlage reflects on a year of highs & lows
The future of Loran Steinlage's operation and the agriculture industry weighed on the No-Till Innovator throughout 2023. David Brandt, Steinlage’s mentor and close friend, died unexpectedly in May, leaving Steinlage with a mission to carry on Brandt’s vision to create a farmer-to-farmer learning center in southwestern Wisconsin.
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Cover Crops

Seeding a Cereal Rye Cover Crop Every Month of the Year

No-tiller’s informal trial of seeding a rye cover crop every month of the year teaches lessons about rye’s resilience
Wade Dooley has done plenty of official experiments with the Iowa Soybean Association, Practical Farmers of Iowa and other groups that conduct research and development in agriculture. But when the Marshall County, Iowa, grower decided to try seeding rye every single month, there was nothing official about it.
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