Time now for our Video of the Week. Jimmy Emmons checks in from Oklahoma to show how his long-term no-till field held up after getting pounded by rain. Jimmy, take it away!
“This year at the National No-Till Conference, I’m going to be talking about soil structure. You see behind me here, this is a grain sorghum field that we harvested earlier this year, and turned around and planted wheat back into it after a rain. We just received 4 inches of rain the last 2 days here. This is about a 200-acre field. There’s no standing water, no runoff water in this field. It’s had a living continuous root now for 10 years with no-till. Making effective rainfall is the goal.”
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