Whether it’s through the government, carbon markets or private companies, a number of opportunities can help no-tillers adopt regenerative ag practices profitably.
South Africa’s water scarcity — and the need to import well over 1 million tons of wheat annually — mean that the country’s winter wheat growers increasingly have to optimize their water-use efficiencies. The No-Till Passport series is brought to you by Martin Industries.
The Regenerator's Atlas of America is part of the the Soil For Water Project, which aims to network people curious about water and soil practices designed to keep on is designed to allow farmers, ranchers and land managers who are trying to hold more moisture in the soil to tell their stories.
The study, recently published in the journal Biology, investigated how bacteria in non-photosynthetic leaf cells of seed plants can naturally provide nitrogen to plants. Currently, inorganic nitrogen fertilizers, such as ammonia or nitrate, are commonly applied to soils, damaging soils, and causing nitrogen runoff that contaminates streams, rivers, and other water bodies.
Veteran Kansas no-tiller farms around dry High Plains weather, seeking to eliminate summer fallow when possible and using conserved soil moisture to grow something on every acre throughout the season.
Farming 25 miles southeast of Dodge City in southwestern Kansas with limited irrigation, long-time no-tiller Lance Feikert says it’s difficult to set a rotation schedule and stick with it because of rainfall variability.
Large swathes of the West and Plains — from Puget Sound to Western Iowa and south to Texas — can expect a 33% chance of reduced rainfall. A smaller core area, from Eastern Washington and Oregon, Northern Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Kansas, and the western Dakotas, is facing a 50% chance of reduced rainfall.
While parts of Ohio and other Midwestern states have been wet this winter and wheat stands may look poor, stem counts may better correlate to potential yields.
MagrowTec uses a series of powerful magnets to condition water in a sprayer and normalize droplet size, which reduces drift and increases plant coverage. Trimble’s Ron Cox explains the technology and why MagrowTec became a Trimble Select partner.
In years when late harvest limits winter wheat establishment or when winter injury reduces stand, spring hard red wheat might be a viable option. A University of Nebraska study looked at water consumption, productivity and protein content of hard red spring wheat in 2021.
With millions of tons of soil loss mitigated, an increase in soil carbon and a reduction in nutrient surface runoff, the CEAP report form the NRCS suggests U.S. farmers have seen big improvements from using no-till, diversifying crop rotations and irrigating more efficiently.
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No-Till Living Legend and 2024 Conservation Ag Operator Fellow Ray McCormick shows the downstream impact of water and soil cascading from tilled fields in Vincennes, Ind.
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