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Iowa's NRCS: No-Till Will Preserve Soil Moisture For Next Year

October 23, 2012 | Posted in Water Management

Source: Iowa NRCS

Farmers should consider no-till farming as the most important tool to prevent loss of soil moisture, especially during the current drought conditions in Iowa, according to Barb Stewart, state agronomist with the NRCS in Iowa.

September 2012 Poll: Conserving Soil Moisture

By John Dobberstein posted on August 16, 2012 | Posted in Water Management

From August 16th, 2012 - September 15th, 2012, we asked No-Till Farmer readers: "Did no-till or strip-till help you conserve more soil moisture this year than neighbors who used conventional or minimum tillage?"

Precautions With Late-Season Herbicide Applications

July 13, 2012 | Posted in Crop Protection

Source: By Aaron Hager, University of Illinois

Performance of many foliar-applied soybean herbicides has been challenged by the adverse environmental conditions.

Flat, Table-Top Fields Need Moisture-Driven Management

Illinois strip-tiller shares lessons he learned while struggling with bad weather and cold, wet fields.

By Martha Mintz posted on June 1, 2012 | Posted in Water Management

Too much water can keep planters and combines out of the field, leech away nutrients and drown crops, yet farmers still need it to grow crops. The trick, strip-tiller Scott Davidson says, is to manage moisture where you can and avoid planting when conditions aren’t right.

Nebraska Farmers Examine Cover Crop Water Use

August 5, 2011 | Posted in Water Management

Source: Nebraska Ag Connection

Farmers in Nebraska are researching how cover crops work in the north central region and, particularly, how they affect a dryland cropping system.

Researchers Find Positive Impacts In No-Till Systems

December 30, 2010

Source: The Prairie Star

Dickinson Research Extension Center in southwestern North Dakota has consistently found no-till to be a clear advantage for producers who use it in their rotational cropping systems.

Strip-Till Warms Soil, Conserves Moisture

September 17, 2010 | Posted in Water Management

Remote sensing will enable scientists to see if winter cover crops are improving water quality in the Chesapeake Bay.

No-Till Briefs

May 1, 2010 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Crop Protection

No-tillers should be cautious about planting corn 2 inches deep or more, says Barry Fisher, Indiana state agronomist with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service

What I've Learned from No-Tilling

Bending Equipment, Agronomics To Fit His Needs Pays

South Dakota no-tiller Terry Huss modifies new equipment to fit his dry conditions and goes against the trend by growing wheat with corn and soybeans.

By Ron Ross posted on December 1, 2009 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Equipment

It doesn’t seem possible that I’ve been no-tilling for 30 years. I don’t know if you would call me a pioneer, but no-till was almost unheard of in north central South Dakota in 1979.

Failed Aerial Seeding Of Cover Crops Reported

October 9, 2009 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

Reports are coming in from no-till farmers who cannot find seedlings in fields that received aerial application of cover crop seeds in late summer.

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