While no-till is a pillar of the regen movement, the Big Soil Health Event is definitely a departure from conventional no-till practices. As I was listening to the speakers, these four statements caught my attention, and I wondered how those of you reading would have reacted had you been there.
When delegates from 27 countries making up the European Union (EU) Commission failed to find an agreeable position on the use of glyphosate, the agency went ahead and approved the use of this herbicide for the next 10 years.
It is becoming increasingly evident that we endanger our capacity to feed the world by over-assigning feed crops to prime farmland. The priority for this heritage is to grow crops for human edible food, while maintaining or improving soil health and overall ecological integrity.
In No-Till Farmer’s November 2023 Conservation Tillage Guide, editor Frank Lessiter challenged food companies to prove their commitment to regenerative agriculture is more than just a PR campaign … and at least one major food company was listening.
The myth is that no-tillage should put seeds in the same soil environment that tillage has been doing for hundreds of years, but to do it with seed openers on the planter instead of cultivating entire fields.
For No-tillers growing corn and soybeans, seeding cover crops will almost always increase profits. But maybe not right away, maintains the Univ. of Missouri’s Rob Myers.
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Conservation Ag Operator Fellow & No-Till Living Legend Ray McCormick walks through the specs of his 35-foot wide John Deere Draper Platform and Gandy Air Seeders that he uses to seed cover crops while harvesting all in one pass.
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