Focusing on even emergence followed by spacing and precision upgrades is a good plan for making changes to your planter setup, says Penn State University Extension.
For some time, Luke Linnenbringer felt like he was on a treadmill trying to farm profitably in a conventional-tillage system with degraded soils and stagnant yields. In fact, he was ready to stop cropping nearly a decade ago.
It's never a bad idea to revisit planter-maintenance basics ahead of spring planting, which Mark Hanna from Iowa State University Extension shares in this article with a special mention about no-till and reduced-tillage conditions.
“No-Till is not a machine, not a crop and not residue. Instead, no-till is a combination of all the critical things you need to produce the best crop with the least cost and the most sustainability. That’s been our farm goal for the past quarter century.”
Exapta Solutions has announced several upgrades and improvements to blades, seed tube guards and Aricks row cleaners in the company's equipment lineup for planting and seeding.
A family that ignored naysayers and embraced no-till practices and living roots is bringing productivity back to tough clay soils and riverbottoms in southern Indiana.
Joe Kern and his father, John, admit they’re still dealing with a learning curve. But through working with no-till practices they’re transforming their “clay pot” soils into acreage that recently produced up to 240-bushel corn and 80-bushel soybeans.
When Shawn and Shane Tiffany took over the former Black Diamond feed yard in 2007 it wasn’t in terrible shape, mostly because of manure applications that kept organic matter in the soil. But after going to a cover crop field day 8 years ago, the brothers didn’t want to just settle.
Oxford, Kan., no-tiller Jerrod Lawrence discusses the setup on his 2008 White planter,
which includes Yetter SharkTooth residue managers, RK Products seed tube guards,
Copperhead Ag Furrow Cruiser closing wheels and a Totally Tubular application system.
He also discussed choosing corn populations for the variable soils on his farm.
Matt Griggs says embracing biomass in his fields has improved soil tilth and health, stabilized yields, enhanced weed control and produced a better-looking balance sheet.
When Matt Griggs decided to embark on no-till practices more than a decade ago he was already dealing with a degraded soil resource. More than 100 years of conventional tillage and a monoculture of cotton on his family’s rolling farm ground had caused erosion and stripped soils of organic matter.
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Capturing sunlight and keeping living roots in the ground as long as possible is the goal of Beaver Dam, Ws., no-tiller Marty Weiss. The co-chair of the Dodge County Farmers for Healthy Soil & Healthy Water talks about strip-cropping and interseeding cover crops at a field day in the summer of 2020.
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