This page lists material that supplements the January 2017 issue of No-Till Farmer.
Canadians See Success with Multispecies Covers, Interseeding
After seeing the damage caused by tillage on his home farm in Austria, Eduard Zehetner decided to try no-till on his Hensall, Ontario, farm in the early 1990s. While he was able to make no-till soybeans and winter wheat work, no-till corn was a struggle.
A Supplement to the article “Canadians See Success with Multispecies Covers, Interseeding” on Page 10.
Switch to No-Till Saves Soil, Boosts Nutrient Efficiency
- In this video, Ron and Ethan discuss why they switched to no-till practices in 1996 on their 2,600-acre operation near Belle Plaine, Kan., and the different components they’ve added to their John Deere 7200 planter that include Dawn row cleaners and Dawn Curvetine closing wheels.
- In this video, no-tiller Ron Neises discusses the fertilizer spreader he built using an old spreader box off an Ag Chem unit, a truck axle, combine tires and other equipment and technology as he uses the machine to spread urea, lime, potash, mono-ammonium phosphate and di-ammonium phosphate.
- In this video, Ethan Neises talks about the switch to a Hesston WR9760 swather with RazorBar technology and how it helped them double their alfalfa production per hour over the previous Hesston model with a sickle head.
A Supplements to the article “Switch to No-Till Saves Soil, Boosts Nutrient Efficiency” on Page 12.
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