No-Till Farmer editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at the grower's world from the lofty digital realm. Here is our favorite content from the past week from across the web:
- Hedrick Credits Cover Crops with World Record No-Till Yield
- Ray Archuleta: ‘Regenerative Agriculture Is Tapping into the Power of Life’
- Fitting Small Grains into Your No-Till Rotation
- Tillage Is a Natural Disaster Ripping Through the Soil
- ChatGPT Describes No-Till as a 1920s Gangster
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Hedrick Credits Cover Crops with World Record No-Till Yield
Hickory, N.C., no-tiller Russell Hedrick’s process for growing record-setting corn starts with planting cover crops, and he even takes tissue samples of his covers to understand their nutrient load and his carbon-to-nitrogen ratio. Illinois Farmer Today reports on the record-setting no-tiller’s practices from the 2023 National No-Tillage Conference, where Hedrick was a featured speaker.
Ray Archuleta: ‘Regenerative Agriculture Is Tapping into the Power of Life’
2022 No-Till Innovator Ray Archuleta explains the power of understanding soils are alive and mimicking nature with regenerative agriculture in this video from In Ohio Country Today. “The no. 1 issue for producers is they do not believe their soil is alive. They think it’s dirt.”
Fitting Small Grains into Your No-Till Rotation
Jeff Olson, Nathan Anderson, Ron Rosman and other Iowa no-tillers talk about how they work small grains into their rotations in this video from the Practical Farmers of Iowa.
Tillage Is a Natural Disaster Ripping Through the Soil
In this article from Farm Progress, Indiana district conservationist Don Donovan compares tillage to a natural disaster ripping through the soil. “Recovery can be extremely difficult after just one natural disaster. What if you suffered through a major tornado followed by a major flood not once in your lifetime, but every year? Forget about recovery!” No-till, on the other hand, protects microbes, earthworms and other soil organisms from such disasters.
ChatGPT Describes No-Till as a 1920s Gangster
This week our editors learned that one of the entertaining things ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) program making headlines lately for its writing abilities, can do is tailor text to specific audiences. Naturally, we asked it to describe no-till farming as a 1920s gangster and got this response. No-till is good, capiche?
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