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:
- Analyzing Latest Phantom Yield Loss Data
- No-Till On the Plains Gathers 300 Farmers at Winter Conference
- Using Systems-Based Research in Regenerative Ag
- Understanding the Power of No-Till
- Terraforma Striving to Make Farmer’s Lives Easier
Analyzing Latest Phantom Yield Loss Data
Connor Sible, a research assistant professor in crop production at Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, recently shared phantom yield loss data from last year’s growing season. Check out this post on X, formerly Twitter, to see what he and other commentators are gathering from the latest phantom yield loss data.
Finally got around to this past year's phantom yield loss data. Here are the last two years of results, same 9 hybrids tested in both years.
— Connor Sible (@ConnorSible) January 28, 2025
Yield loss is real, but it is not kernel respiration on the plant. It is either harvest loss or yield monitor calibration variation. pic.twitter.com/g4B01fK68x
No-Till On the Plains Gathers 300 Farmers at Winter Conference
No-till on the Plains held its 29th Annual Winter Conference last week in Wichita, Kan., where a focus on sustainability in agriculture was the central theme of discussion.
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In this episode of John Kempf’s Advancing Eco Agriculture Podcast, John is joined by Cindy Daley, founding director of the Center for Regenerative Agriculture at California State University, Chico. John and Cindy discuss using systems-based research over traditional single-variable studies, incorporating flux towers to measure real-time carbon flux and soil health improvements, partnering with growers as co-researchers to advance regenerative practices, developing a degree program in regenerative agriculture to educate future farmers and leaders and emphasizing the need for agricultural policy shifts to support ecological farming practices.
Understanding the Power of No-Till
In this video, check out No-Till Farmer’s 2025 Conservation Ag Operator Fellow, Michael Thompson, a Kansas farmer who is regenerating his soils with no-till and cover-crops coupled with Adaptive Multi-Paddock (AMP) grazing — giving his farm resilience during the severe 2011 and 2012 droughts.
Terraforma Striving to Make Farmer’s Lives Easier
All no-tillers know that soil health is critical to growing abundant crops. A company called Terraforma is working to change how producers care for the land they farm. Their mission is to increase farm profitability by optimizing soil biodiversity and reducing fertilizer input costs. In this video from Nebraska Ag Expo, learn more about their efforts.
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