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:
- What Would Jesus Think of No-Till & Cover Crops?
- Organic No-Tiller Plants Green into Mature Cover Crop, Despite Naysayers
- Tilled Soil Explodes in Water, No-Tilled Soil ‘Glued’ Together
- How to Identify Grass Weeds Early in the Season
- No-Till Legend: Tillage Crash Costs Farmers, Society
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What Would Jesus Think of No-Till & Cover Crops?
No-Till Legend Steve Groff gives his two cents on what Jesus would think of no-till and cover crops in a recent YouTube video. The Bible makes several references to tillage, and Groff unpacks what he thinks may have been lost in translation and how he interprets the tillage references as a means of caring for the soil.
Organic No-Tiller Plants Green into Mature Cover Crop, Despite Naysayers
Greg Massa of Massa Organics in Glenn, Calif., tweeted this photo showing how he plants organic rice green into a mature cover crop. “I can almost hear all the other farmers telling me it won’t work,” he writes.
No-till planting organic rice directly into a mature cover crop today. I can almost hear all the other farmers telling me it won’t work. #plantgreen #farmdifferent pic.twitter.com/KU04Jko6Vf
— Greg Massa (@MassaOrganics) May 3, 2023
Tilled Soil Explodes in Water, No-Tilled Soil ‘Glued’ Together
This Facebook post from the Jasper County Soil and Water Conservation District in Newton, Iowa, shows the striking difference between the health of tilled and no-tilled soil. The samples are the same soil type, and both have been in a corn-soybean rotation for more than 20 years. This photo, taken 2 minutes after both samples were placed in the water, shows how the no-tilled and cover cropped soil holds together, while the tilled soil exploded.
How to Identify Grass Weeds Early in the Season
Grass weeds are easier to distinguish once their seedheads emerge, but that’s well past the ideal stage to control them, warns Mark VanGessel, University of Delaware Extension weed scientist. He explains how to identify grasses early in the season in this video.
No-Till Legend: Tillage Crash Costs Farmers, Society
Last week, No-Till Farmer launched Conservation Ag Update, a weekly one-stop-shop newscast about conservation agriculture practices hosted by technology editor Noah Newman. In this episode, Newman talks to No-Till Legend Randall Reeder about the deadly crash in Illinois May 1 caused by dust blowing off a tilled field.
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