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5 Most Common Combine Problems Solved

From ragged cuts to chaff in the sample, No-Till Legend Marion Calmer answers no-tillers’ most common combine questions.
"Regardless of the color of combine that you have, they all have problems,” says Marion Calmer, a fourth-generation farmer from Alpha, Ill., and founder and CEO of Calmer Corn Heads.
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Carbon Markets

Low-Carbon Corn Could Yield Serious Cash for No-Tillers

An upcoming tax credit for ethanol producers could translate to payments to no-tillers who document their practices & verify carbon intensity scores
No-tillers who are growing corn have an excellent opportunity to cash in on government demands to reduce the overall carbon intensity of the biofuels industry.
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What I've Learned From No-Tilling

No-Tiller Grows 18 Crops in 1 Year to Improve Soil Health

Colorado no-tiller Roy Pfaltzgraff ditches family farm’s break-even tradition, following the data to continuous cropping.
When I came back to our Haxtun, Colo., farm in 2016, my dad agreed to continue doing the bookkeeping if I did the physical labor. Now that we raise 12 or more crops per year, direct market farm products and so much more, he regularly complains he got the short end of the stick. But he complains with a smile.
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Online Extras: August 2023 Issue

Web-exclusive content for this issue includes:

  • Planting Season Challenges No-Tiller’s Planter, Patience 
  • Strip-Tillers Increase Acreage & Outyield No-Tillers in 2022
  • 5 International No-Till Legends Honored
  • John Franz & the Glyphosate Discovery
  • Strip-Tillers Boost Bottom Line & Soil Health with Twin-Row System
  • What Do You Do with Your Headlands & Turn Rows?
  • No-Till Farmer Multimedia
  • No-Till Farmer’s Best of the Web

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Ahead of the Curve

‘Lightning’ Nitrogen, Green Ammonia Promise Cleaner Fertilizer Sources

Startup harnessing power of lightning to make nitrogen & green ammonia produced by renewable energy seek to replace fossil-fuel produced anhydrous ammonia.
As scientists search for cleaner methods of producing nitrogen (N) fertilizer, they increasingly look to replace the century-old method of treating natural gas with high-pressure steam to produce anhydrous ammonia — the backbone of most forms of agricultural N products.
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