Join No-Till Farmer in this special webinar where we will show a replay of Howard G. Buffet's session from the 32nd Annual National No-Tillage Conference.
It is estimated that about 20-40% has experienced degradation in the last several decades, including 70% of freshwater use. To put things into further context, in 1960, arable land worldwide (per capita) was 0.42. It is thought this will be reduced to 0.19 in 2050.
Retired professor, soil health scientist Warren Dick and his organization are building an agricultural university and training center to help fight food insecurity in Ethiopia.
The livelihoods of millions of Uganda citizens is rooted in the highlands — the mountainous or elevated regions of the East African country. These regions play a significant role in agriculture, which is the main source of income for many Ugandans, including for 70% of working women. These regions are also recognized as one of the key hotspots where land degradation, due to soil erosion, is rampant. The No-Till Passport series is brought to you by Martin Industries.
Source: American Society of Agronomy, Soil Science Society of America, Crop Science Society of America
Sometimes, growing two crops simultaneously on the same piece of land — called intercropping — can benefit farmers. But it needs careful planning and resource management.
Soil scientist John Baker explains how no-till not only prevents more carbon from being released into the atmosphere, it returns it to the soil for future crop production
African farmers and American producers have different motivations and face unique challenges, but they are crucial to global food security and negatively affected by misinformation and innuendo that shape the current debates on how to feed the future.
Cover crops incorporated into a continuous no-till field crop rotation can produce enough nitrogen to complement, or in some cases, replace corn nitrogen fertilizer applications, according to long-term Ohio State University Extension research.
At the time of his presentation to the 2010 National No-Tillage Conference in Des Moines, Iowa, Howard G. Buffett (son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett) had been no-tilling since 1992 on 16,000 acres in Illinois and Nebraska as well as another 6,000-plus acres in South Africa.
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