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What I've Learned from No-Tilling

Experience and Observation Sells Power of No-Till and Cover Crops

Once-skeptic farmer Dale Strickler now helps other growers implement successful cover crops plans in their operations.
By Dale Strickler and Martha Mintz posted on April 30, 2019 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Cover Crops, Soil Health
“Lazy man's farming,” is what my Dad called no-till. It was the 1980s, and in his mind both no-till and organic farming were dirty words. They were the two extreme ends of the farming spectrum.
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No-Tiller Launches Right Into Cover Crops, Planting Green

No-tilling for only a few years, Josh Payne is already reaping the benefits of diverse cover crops, improved soil tilth and reduced commercial inputs.
By Lynn Betts posted on March 10, 2018 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Residue Management
Josh Payne remembers the day he decided to switch from conventional tillage to no-tilling. The young farmer and his grandfather Charlie were in a shed one day in May 2013 on Charlie Payne’s farm near Concordia, Mo., working on machinery.
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Carbonomics: Opening a Carbon Currency Exchange Within a No-Till Soil Ecosystem

Crop diversity and biological activity in a cover-cropped farming system ensures healthy interactions between plants, roots and soil organisms, says Keith Berns.
By Mark McNeely posted on March 10, 2018 | Posted in Cover Crops, Nutrient Management, Soil Health
Likening a healthy, robust industrial economy to the types of biological activities taking place underground in a no-till, cover-cropped farming system isn’t a stretch of the imagination, says Keith Berns.
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