We have an 8-year-old no-till planter with electric drives, no automatic downforce, standard closing wheels and factory liquid fertilizer attachments. Should we upgrade? If so, which technologies first?  

Ryan Gibbs, Hopkinton, Iowa, no-tiller and owner of Gibbsfield Ag, shows how he makes compost extract for production agriculture fields. He says the extract, made by washing dry compost, applied as a liquid in furrow is the equivalent of using a few thousand pounds of dry compost per acre.