Trial and error is part of any innovative no-till operation, but with some insight from No-Till Farmer readers, maybe some error can be taken out of the trial. We asked our readers to cast their vote for the products that helped bring them success in the field in 2008. From equipment to inputs, readers identified their top products that worked as hard in the field as they do themselves.

Necessity is the mother of all invention, and the winners of the 2008 No-Till Innovator Awards had plenty of necessity to go around.

There remains plenty of accessible credit, at least for those in the ag industry with strong balance sheets willing to pay the higher cost of the money that’s available, Ag Equipment Intelligence editors report.

The land that Jeff Notstad no-tills might cause a lot of farmers to scratch their heads. It’s 480 acres of rocky, shallow loam soils that aren’t ideal for raising crops.