In the second installment of No-Till Farmer’s Ask the Operator webinar series, 2023 Conservation Ag Operator Fellow Loran Steinlage of West Union, Iowa, welcomed a Ukrainian no-tiller named Konstantin, who shared the challenges of farming in wartime and what North American no-tillers should know about the ongoing war in Ukraine. The No-Till Passport series is brought to you by Martin Industries.

John Kempf, chief vision officer and founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture, hosted a webinar titled “Regenerative Tools for Your No-Till Toolbox – Bringing Life to Your Soil.” In the webinar, Kempf dives into the relationship between soil biology and no-till farm management, and shares the value of biological inputs and the changes they can bring to your soil. One key to understanding this topic is understanding the rhizophagy cycle, which can be summarized into 5 stages:

Our latest Ask the Operator question asks what herbicides to use when interseeding into corn.

Our latest Ask the Operator question asks what cover crop to seed into standing corn around V5 that will be going to soybeans.

In February, Kinze introduced the 5700 24-row 20” planter equipped with the NEW 5000 Series row unit and many other advanced productivity features. Brad Niensteadt, a planter product expert at Kinze Manufacturing, explains how the 5700 can easily handle the challenges of narrow-row, no-till planting.

Our latest Ask the Operator question asks if 100-day corn and shorter-season soybeans should be used in northern latitudes to get better cover crop establishment.