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No-Till Farmer Contributor Martha Mintz Snaps Up Ag Photography Award

By Julia Gerlach posted on August 6, 2019

Ag writer and photographer Martha Mintz is no stranger to receiving accolades for her work and on July 31 she received another honor, having been named Photographer of the Year by the AAEA.

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Cattle, Cover Crops, No-Till and Improved Soil Health Provide Returns

Fifth generation of Doans keeping North Dakota’s Black Leg Ranch abundant with diverse business plan of cattle, crops and agritourism.

By Jerry Doan and Martha Mintz posted on March 10, 2018 | Posted in Cover Crops, Residue Management, Nutrient Management

Some of the soils I helped farm as a child in southwestern North Dakota are probably somewhere in South Dakota now. I grew up in the era of wheat and summer fallow. A lot of the ground around here is very sandy and marginal. Did it ever blow when we were tilling. I remember as a kid getting sent with a disc or a drag to try and make it stop blowing. It seemed so futile, and it was.

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Harvesting Sunlight, Feeding No-Till Soils

Jim Harbach and Schrack Farms Partnership is using a diverse no-till, cover-crop system to build up organic-matter levels in rocky limestone soils.

By Martha Mintz posted on January 9, 2015 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101

Our farm perplexed our crop advisor, Gerard Troisi. He consults with many farms in our area of Pennsylvania with a diverse range of production practices. But he struggled to explain how we increased our soil organic matter by 1% in just 3 years while consistently removing virtually all biomass.

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Bucking The Tillage Trend In An Alpine Desert

No-till practices are saving Colorado grower Billy Burns’ soils, and even helping his fields recover from a tragic herbicide mistake.

By Billy Burns and Martha Mintz posted on September 1, 2014 | Posted in Cover Crops, Soil Health

As no-tillers we are definitely an oddity here in the highly productive San Luis Valley of Colorado. While we strive to keep our acres covered and undisturbed, the farmers surrounding us move masses of earth with every crop.

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Conservation: Not Just A Means To An End

Early no-till adopter Jerry Peery says he has a ‘moral obligation’ to protect and build soils on his Kentucky farm for future farming generations.

By Jerry Peery and Martha Mintz posted on July 1, 2014 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101, Cover Crops, Water Management

The way our land erodes, there’s no way we’d be in business today if we were still farming the way we did 50 years ago.

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Breaking Through The Plow Pan, Taking No-Till To New Heights

Ralph Upton Jr. didn’t know how his early gamble on no-till and cover crops would pay off, but he’s reaping the rewards for his sustainable investment.

By Martha Mintz and Ralph Upton posted on June 1, 2014 | Posted in Cover Crops

If we're talking cover crops, I could keep a person up all night. Cover crops are truly amazing in what they can accomplish, and the number of different hats they can wear on the farm.

Why Your Glyphosate May Not Be Working

Hard water in the spray tank can cause double-digit reductions in the effectiveness of glyphosate applications, and may also be silently exacerbating problems with herbicide resistance in weeds.

By Martha Mintz posted on May 1, 2014 | Posted in Crop Protection, Water Management

The carefully calculated and measured rate of glyphosate that goes in the spray tank is the same deadly dose that makes it to weed leaves, right?

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Taking Control Of Inputs Leads To Higher No-Till Profits

Long-time no-tiller Joel Armistead uses precision technology and many other tools to dole out inputs and create a sleek, efficient no-till machine.

By Joel Armistead and Martha Mintz posted on April 1, 2014 | Posted in Equipment

Our first no-till planter came in on a truck in pieces. It was just iron frames, planter boxes and bits and parts.

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No-Till And Cover Crops — Just Rolling With It

A three-pronged management approach helps longtime no-tiller John C. Johnson use residue to keep nutrients cycling and yields high.

By John C Johnson and Martha Mintz posted on March 1, 2014 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101, Cover Crops, Equipment

Cover cropping may be a modern buzz term, but it’s a concept I first witnessed back in the late 1940s. I’m the fifth generation of my family to farm both sides of the Mason-Dixon line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, and was fortunate enough to watch both my father and grandfather work the land.

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No-Till Shift Leads To Brighter, More Profitable Days

Embracing no-till 2 decades ago helped Carl Mattson preserve fragile soils, boost wheat yields and get an upper hand on problematic weeds.

By Carl Mattson and Martha Mintz posted on February 1, 2014 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101

No-till has definitely changed the landscape of our farm over the years, but it was a change in the farms around us in the late 1980s that gave us the push into no-till.

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