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What I've Learned from No-Tilling

“When We Started To No-Till, Corn Yields Jumped 20 Bushels Per Acre!”

After 27 years, this Nebraska no-tiller knows no-tillage will make his soils and production tools sustainable for generations to come.
By Ron Ross posted on March 1, 2003 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101, Crop Protection
No-Till is not a machine, not a crop and not residue. Instead, no-till is a combination of all the critical things you need to produce the best crop with the least cost and the most sustainability. That’s been our farm goal for the past quarter-century.
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What I've Learned from No-Tilling

Never Look Back With No-Till

No-till’s impact on the environment will last for many generations to come.
By Ron Ross and James O Andrew posted on February 1, 2003 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101
When i started no-tilling, I felt a renewed sense of energy and excitement about farming. I’m guessing a lot of fledgling no-tillers get that same feeling.
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Rolling Cover Crops Gives Mixed Results

The idea has plenty of potential, but there are still some bugs to be worked out.
By Ron Ross posted on January 1, 2003 | Posted in Cover Crops
Will a cover crop residue roller – considered essential in South American no-till fields – add value in the northern Great Plains? Dr. Dwayne Beck is studying that question under environmental conditions that are the equivalent of being several hundred miles north of tropical Paraguay and Brazil.
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What I've Learned from No-Tilling

Do More With Less!

With direct seeding, three men handle 4,000 acres.
By John Aeschliman and Ron Ross posted on October 1, 2002 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101
When I was a kid, I knew it was spring when the mud roared off our highly erodible hills, across the roads and flowed through our farm yard.
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Part One Of A Series...

No-Till Boosts Yields While Saving Time

Being innovators and pulling together a total cropping package has paid big dividends for these highly successful no-tillers.
By Ron Ross posted on June 1, 2001 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101, Seeding & Planting, Equipment
THE Baruth brothers — Ron, Larry and Tom — continue to raise wheat, but pretty much look at cereal crops as an integral part of their 150-bushel corn and 40-bushel per acre soybean no-till cropping formula.
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