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Two Legends Who Gave No-Till A Lift

A savvy for problem solving helped two rural Kentucky farmers invent planter attachments and technologies that changed the game for no-tillers.
While many innovative farmers and manufacturers have played important roles in the growth of no-till, two men perhaps loom the largest — no-tiller Eugene Keeton and Howard Martin, the founder of Martin Industries.
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Meeting The Challenges Of Early No-Tilling

Better planter technology, herbicides, hybrids and varieties helped our farming operation overcome early no-till problems.
We’ve been continuously no-tilling corn, soybeans and alfalfa on our farm since the 1980ss. Looking back, I can say it wasn’t as easy to get started back then. The equipment and agronomic tools just weren’t as good as they are today.
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“Highways” May Cure Compaction

Running equipment on the same path in no-till fields gives rootbeds space to develop and may even increase yields, researchers say.
Although researchers are not advocating paved lanes or painted lines down the middle of crop rows, some no-tillers are being encouraged to establish regular “tractor highways” in planting, spraying and harvesting.
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No-Till Grows Beyond The Borders

Controlled traffic, cover crops and continuous no-till are boosting yields and profitability in South America, Australia and elsewhere as worldwide no-till acres near 300 million.
To gauge the world’s supply of arable farming acres, an agricultural expert once compared Earth to the size of an apple, cut into 32 slices. The number of acres suitable for food production represents only one slice, and the apple’s skin represents the world’s supply of topsoil.
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Bringing No-Till To The Palouse

From evaluating rotations and chemical options to designing the first successful no-till drill, Guy and Mort Swanson helped no-till take root in the Pacific Northwest.
Guy and Mort Swanson played key roles in developing no-till in a unique region that both desperately needed — and could easily live without — the practice.
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Time To Give Your Sprayer Some TLC

If you want to avoid potential problems and save yourself from frustration and major headaches, you will be wise to give your sprayer a little bit of TLC these days.
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CNH Announces Strategic Partnership with No-Till Specialist Semeato

Case New Holland (CNH), a global leader in the agricultural and construction equipment business, today announced a new strategic partnership with Semeato, the Brazilian market leader in attachments and agricultural machinery, specializing in technologies for no-till planting and seeding of grains.
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