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‘Regenerative Agriculture to Boost the Bottom Line’ is Focus of Winter Conference, AIM Symposium

November 8, 2017

Allowing soils to regenerate is the key to bottom-line success for producers, and the No-till on the Plains Winter Conference is the place to learn more.

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Passing No-Till Onto the Next Generation

By John Dobberstein posted on September 14, 2016 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101

While brain drain has been a problem in family farming for quite a while, there are still plenty of children who go to college and return home to participate in the family business. And in the coming years there will be one of the biggest transfers of farm ownership in history.

Caring for 'Underground Livestock' Key to Colorado Farmer's Success

By Ron Nichols posted on August 25, 2016 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101, Cover Crops, Soil Health

Source: NRCS

John Heermann has gained the trust of his landlords to restore soil health on their fields in northeastern Colorado with the use of continuous no-till and diverse cropping rotations.

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8 Things Learned at Farming Evolution

By John Dobberstein posted on March 9, 2016 | Posted in Cover Crops, Soil Health, Water Management

Earlier this month, about 170 people attended the Farming Evolution no-till conference in Holyoke, Colo., where attendees covered a number of topics related to no-till practices, cover cropping and soil health principles.

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Using Pelletized Compost in No-Till

March 2, 2016 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Soil Health

At the Southern Soil Health Conference in Ardmore, Okla., Jon Heerman, a no-tiller from Haxtun, Colo., talks about how he’s applying pelletized compost with his John Deere air seeder to increase soil biological diversity on his farm. Heerman, who no-tills wheat, rye, field peas, oats, milo and sunflowers, is even exploring ways to use a self-propelled sprayer to apply the compost pellets.

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Rules for No-Till, Cover Crop Success

By John Dobberstein posted on January 13, 2016 | Posted in Cover Crops, Soil Health

When it comes to rejuvenating worn fields and pastures in the southern Plains, there were plenty of ideas shared among the nearly 200 people attending the Southern Soil Health Conference this week in Ardmore, Okla.

Swapping Fallow for Covers Boosts No-Till, Dryland Margins

John Heermann is using cover-crop mixes and a diverse, flexible crop rotation to eliminate summerfallow and improve the bottom line.

By John Dobberstein posted on October 26, 2015 | Posted in Cover Crops, Water Management

A few years ago, John Heermann sat down to do his annual budgeting ahead of the next cropping season and sensed a problem was brewing.

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