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:
- Making a No-Till Drill More Effective
- John Oliver Tackles the U.S. Corn & Ethanol Situation
- Scalable Solutions for Organic No-Till
- No-Tilled Soil Outshines Conventional Tillage During On-Farm Demonstration
- No-Till in Brazil Has Been Working for Decades
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Making a No-Till Drill More Effective
Rob Dowdle’s new LMC Ag no-till drill is not effective enough because it is too light. In this video he shows how he is adding some weight to it so that he can seed cover crops of sorghum sudan grass, forage soybeans, sunflowers and buckwheat into his hard, compacted clay soils in Mississippi to improve grazing conditions and increase soil health.
John Oliver Tackles the U.S. Corn & Ethanol Situation
John Oliver, host of Last Week Tonight, looks into federal subsidies effects and ethanol standards upholding America’s number 1 crop — corn.
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Scalable Solutions for Organic No-Till
Large scale organic farms looking to transition to no-till have very few solutions suitable to their scale. Massachusetts farmer Lincoln Fishman has experimented with a number of no-till systems, and has found growing annual cash crops in a perennial living cover of Dutch White clover to be the most scalable and promising. The first half of this video explores this production system while the second half serves as a brainstorming session and attempts to answer these questions: what are the barriers to experimenting with this system? What other scalable systems are growers experimenting with? What resources can growers use as they transition to large scale no-till?
No-Tilled Soil Outshines Conventional Tillage During On-Farm Demonstration
In this video from Fischer Farms, Travis Gogel, a southwestern Indiana soil scientist with the USDA-NRCS, demonstrates how rainwater either runs off or gets absorbed by the soil depending on whether the ground was tilled or not.
No-Till in Brazil Has Been Working for Decades
This YouTube Short shows how Brazil has been utilizing no-till practices to curb erosion and increase soil health for the last several decades and how that has helped save farmers time and money.
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