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No-Till Takeaways: November 2025

November 13, 2025 | Posted in Crop Protection, Equipment, Nutrient Management, Seeding & Planting, Soil Health, Water Management

Below are key no-till takeaways from several of the features found in the November 2025 issue of No-Till Farmer.

No-Till Takeaways: September 2025

September 4, 2025 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Seeding & Planting, Soil Health, Water Management

Below are key no-till takeaways from several of the features found in the September 2025 issue of No-Till Farmer.

Dryland No-Tiller Builds Online Community for Farmers

By Noah Newman posted on December 23, 2024 | Posted in Cover Crops

Tons of great action at the Big Soil Health Event. It was good to see some familiar faces like Roy Pfaltzgraff. The Haxtun, Colo, no-tiller gives us the inside scoop on his new online community called Seeding Circles, which he says is the culmination of his dryland no-till journey.

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No-Tilling in Weather Extremes

December 16, 2024

Dryland no-tillers aren’t the only farmers who faced drought conditions in 2024.

30 Years of No-Till Keeps Farm Financially Stable

Economic turmoil of the 1980s changed operation to 100% no-till, reducing labor, saving soil & enabling crop diversity

By Dan Crummett posted on February 21, 2024 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Soil Health

When Rick Jeans and his dad, Don, began experimenting with no-till in the late 1980s, they were setting in motion a management scheme that would allow Jeans to continue farming about 3,000 acres of cropland in Tonkawa, Okla.

Dryland No-Tiller Earns Bin Buster Award at 2023 National Sorghum Yield Contest

By Jason Jenkins posted on January 10, 2024 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

Source: Progressive Farmer

Chris Santini from Stewartsville, N.J., secured the National Sorghum Producers’ 2023 National Sorghum Yield Contest’s highest yield at 221.75 bushels per acre. Entered into the dryland no-till East division, she surpassed her husband Santino “Sam” in the dryland tillage East division who achieved 221.06 bushels per acre.

Native Grasses Provide Forage, Moisture Retention in Southwest

Native grasses provide vital benefits to the Southwest desert ecosystem, high-quality forage for livestock and effective mitigation tools for addressing natural resources concerns.

November 28, 2022 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service

Both warm- and cool season native grasses provide benefits that are vital to the Southwest desert ecosystems such as lowering soil surface temperature, reducing soil erosion, decreasing soil compaction and improving water infiltration.

No-Tillers Find Success with Diverse Crop Rotations

Efficiency and input reduction lead Brian and Jamie Johnson to continually try new ideas on their 1,700-acre operation that includes more than a half-dozen crops.

By Katie Pratt posted on October 22, 2022 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Soil Health

Brian and Jamie Johnson’s farm may look different than their neighbors, but they are OK with that. The Johnsons’ quest for efficiency and input reduction on their Frankfort, S.D., operation drives them to try new and different things.

Cashing in with Cover Forages Between No-Till Wheat Crops

Oklahoma no-tiller squeezes in a profitable late-summer, early-fall grazing period on cover crops he sows immediately behind his combine. The practice adds $100-150 per acre in cattle gains.

By Dan Crummett posted on May 2, 2022 | Posted in Cover Crops, Nutrient Management, Soil Health

Northwestern Oklahoma no-tiller Jimmy Emmons quit plowing 10 years ago to begin rebuilding his soils and says by adding diverse cover crop mixes to his operation over the same period he’s cut his farm’s overall purchased fertilizer use by 85%.

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