When no-tillers are looking to boost crop yields, it’s tempting to search for the “latest and greatest” product to find the solution. But sometimes farming from a job isn’t the answer. There could be some elusive reasons yields aren’t hitting expectations.
Many benefits of a cover crop being integrated into a crop rotation are long term and multi-year. The longer the system is in place, the more resilient the soil and the more benefits are realized.
Our farm hit a plateau in the 1990s. Yields were flat and we just weren’t making the gains we thought we should be. It’s not that we sought out no-till as the magic solution; we just knew we had to try something different, as conventional tillage wasn’t cutting it.
Once again, growers who seed cover crops have higher yields — and profits — than those who don’t, say the results of Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (SARE) and Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC)’s fourth annual Cover Crop Survey.
Cover crops involve some expense, but Rulon Enterprises in Arcadia, Ind., finds they do more than pay their way in their no-till system of 20-plus years.
There's no cash in cover crops, Ken Rulon says, just tremendous value. And if no-tillers stick to the system, they can see both yield and cost benefits in the long run.
Mississippi State University researchers found that replicated trials from 2005-14 indicate pretreated seeds are effective at whichever level of treatment a no-tiller chooses.
Franke Dijkstra gave U.S. no-tillers a glimpse into the workings of South American no-till sys- tems at the 4th annual conference in 1996. The Brazilian no-tiller returns 19 years later to share more lessons learned over the past 2 decades.
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