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4 Ways to Improve Your No-Till Soil Health

By Philip Gruber posted on February 3, 2024 | Posted in Cover Crops, Soil Health

Worms, fungal glue, chemicals leaked from plants and the feces of microscopic mites: This unappetizing cornucopia is just a sampling of the teeming world of the soil, where underground communities of tiny organisms are key to farm productivity.

Even in a Serious Drought, Soil Never Rests on No-Tiller’s Farm

Once-aspiring microbiologist pampers soil microbiome to push production.

By Martha Mintz posted on November 28, 2022 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Cover Crops, Equipment, Water Management

Drought like we've never seen settled on our farm in north central Oklahoma in 2022. It’s the most severe drought in this area since records started more than 100 years ago.

Digging Up Soil Health, Profitability with ‘Biotic’ Farming

Brendon Rockey turned to companion cropping, covers, compost applications and livestock to regenerate soils on his potato farm in a dry, arid environment.

By John Dobberstein posted on March 1, 2020 | Posted in Cover Crops, Soil Health, Water Management

For all intents and purposes, Brendon Rockey farms in a desert where native soils have almost zero organic matter and precipitation is infrequent. But as bleak as that may sound, Rockey’s farm is actually thriving and biologically active.

Cover Crops and Companion Crop Options for Wheat Growers in the Pacific Northwest

December 27, 2018 | Posted in Cover Crops, Residue Management, Soil Health

Source: Washington State University Extension

Wheat growers in eastern Washington may be interested a new Washington State University Extension technical bulletin that covers cover cropping and companion cropping for the Inland Northwest.

U.K. Grower Shares Success Stories from His Conversion from Full Tillage to Direct Drilling

Reports of his retirement have been greatly exaggerated as David White is direct drilling various crops on light ‘boys’ land near Cambridge, England.

By David White posted on November 7, 2018 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Equipment, Soil Health

Farming 400 acres of combinable crops on light ‘boys’ land between Cambridge and Newmarket, I’ve just had my third direct-drilled harvest. I’m 100% combinable, having been a sugarbeet grower since the days of hand hoeing, as well as offering a drilling and harvesting service with a 6-row tanker in the past.

Embracing the No-Till ‘Greenhouse’ Effect

From interseeding to relay cropping to ‘engineering by inventory,’ Loran Steinlage is building a profitable, divergent no-till operation

By John Dobberstein posted on July 24, 2018 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Cover Crops, Equipment

Several years ago, a trip with friends to look at greenhouses led Loran Steinlage to a Mennonite farm. It was there that he started looking at his farming practices a little differently.

Benefits of Sorghum-Sudangrass as Companion Crop to Establish Forage, Native Legume Species

November 22, 2016 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Cover Crops, Soil Health

Source: University of Nebraska

University of Nebraska discusses early results from its study of the potential benefits from using sorghum-sudangrass as a companion crop with legumes.

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