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Cover Crops Funding Helps Drive UK No-Till Management

October 31, 2022 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Equipment, Crop Protection, Soil Health, Water Management

Due to the previous wet autumn of 2019, the farm had planted over-yeared seed in conditions that were unsuitable for cultivating. It was a backwards step and 2020 ended up being worse than 2019. So Brixworth Farming made the decision to do more cultivations where it was needed, to keep the ability to direct-drill. The No-Till Passport series is brought to you by Martin Industries.

Today’s Recap: Adam Ehlers, No-Tiller, Presho, S.D.

April 27, 2020

Waiting for parts is not what any farmer wants to do when they’re gearing up for spring planting. Presho, S.D., no-tiller Adam Ehlers, has encountered delays due to COVID-19.

Does Delayed Planting of Spring Wheat Mean Lower Yields?

May 7, 2018 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

Source: North Dakota State University

Earlier planting usually means that temperatures are more favorable during tillering and spike formation.

Diverse No-Till Cropping Wins Again

USDA researchers in North Dakota say recent studies show benefits to having perennials and annuals in a rotation, and that no-till is the best implementation tool.

By John Dobberstein posted on December 16, 2017 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Residue Management, Soil Health

The advent of no-till practices has helped many growers in the semi-arid northern Plains conserve soil moisture and increase cropping intensity.

Weed Control Report from Washington State University Now Available

January 25, 2017 | Posted in Crop Protection

Source: Washington State University Extension

The 2016 Washington State University Weed Control Report, summarizing results from field studies conducted in winter wheat, spring wheat, chemical fallow, grasslands, alfalfa, chickpeas, and dry pea, is now available.

What I've Learned from No-Tilling

No-Till Farm Success By Staying The Course

Expanding South Dakota family operation uses technology, crop diversity and better equipment to make no-till work in a limited-moisture climate

By Ralph Holzwarth and Ron Ross posted on January 1, 2011 | Posted in Crop Protection

Ten years ago, when our operation was featured in No-Till Farmer, I told the editors that I would stay with no-tillage regardless of what happened.

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A Great Birthday Present

By Frank Lessiter posted on October 1, 2010 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101

My son, Mike, and I recently spent 6 days looking at no-till in the Palouse, a 3,000-square-mile area located in the southeastern corner of Washington, north central Idaho and northeast Oregon. While I've visited this area several times where no-tillers grow crops on slopes as steep as 60%, I’d never been there during harvest of wheat, barley, peas, lentils and garbanzo beans.

Frank Comments

A Great Birthday Present

By Frank Lessiter posted on October 1, 2010

My son, Mike, and I recently spent 6 days looking at no-till in the Palouse, a 3,000-square-mile area located in the southeastern corner of Washington, north central Idaho and northeast Oregon. While I've visited this area several times where no-tillers grow crops on slopes as steep as 60%, I’d never been there during harvest of wheat, barley, peas, lentils and garbanzo beans.

8 Areas To Focus On For Higher Wheat Yields

Residue management, proper seeding rates, timely nitrogen applications and scouting for diseases are some of the keys to pushing no-till wheat yields to worthwhile levels

By Dan Zinkland posted on May 1, 2010 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Crop Protection, Residue Management

From the Pacific Northwest to the Great Plains to the Eastern Corn Belt, no-tillers John Aeschliman, Dan Forgey, Allen Dean and Romey Bardwell grow different varieties of dryland wheat in different soils in areas receiving vastly different amounts of rain.

Montana No-Tiller Found Getting ‘Lazy’ Worked

Arnold Gettel first tried no-till in 1969 and has seen soil structure and dryland yields improve as a result.

By Martha Ostendorf posted on April 1, 2009 | Posted in Soil Health

“Years ago, I got lazy,” jokes Montana no-tiller Arnold Gettel of why he first tried no-till. While fewer hours in the tractor seat was a legitimate appeal for Gettel, the economical benefits are really what drove the transition.

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Cover Crops Funding Helps Drive UK No-Till Management

Today’s Recap: Adam Ehlers, No-Tiller, Presho, S.D.

Does Delayed Planting of Spring Wheat Mean Lower Yields?

Diverse No-Till Cropping Wins Again

Weed Control Report from Washington State University Now Available

No-Till Farm Success By Staying The Course

A Great Birthday Present

A Great Birthday Present

8 Areas To Focus On For Higher Wheat Yields

Montana No-Tiller Found Getting ‘Lazy’ Worked

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