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[Video] One Pass Only: Seeding Cover Crops While Harvesting

By Mackane Vogel posted on October 1, 2024 | Posted in Cover Crops, Equipment, Seeding & Planting

Conservation Ag Operator Fellow & No-Till Living Legend Ray McCormick walks through the specs of his 35-foot wide John Deere Draper Platform and Gandy Air Seeders that he uses to seed cover crops while harvesting all in one pass.

Cut Cover Crop Costs By 25-50% Without Losing Benefits, Hurting Corn Yield

Study finds cover crops seeded at 50-75% of the typical rate provide same benefits as covers planted at full seeding rate

By Elise Koning posted on August 6, 2024 | Posted in Cover Crops

Farm profitability and environmental stewardship can go hand-in-hand when planting cover crops, according to Purdue University’s Shalamar Armstrong.

No-Till Improves Ag Industry On & Off Farm

By Tom J. Bechman posted on June 27, 2024 | Posted in Cover Crops

Source: Farm Progress

Master Farmers can be viewed in many ways. Some grow their operations to be successful for generations, while others improve agriculture for everyone around them. Tim Gauck has done both.

Joel Myers Receives 2023 Pennsylvania Leopold Conservation Award

January 9, 2024 | Posted in Soil Health

Brothers Joel and Don Myers, who own and operate Myers Family Farm, received the award at the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg on January 8. They receive $10,000 and a crystal award for being selected.

No-Till Helps Address South African Farming Challenges

By Christian Giesel posted on December 28, 2023 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: BizCommunity

Climate change, soil erosion and biodiversity loss are major challenges for South African farmers, but a willingness to adopt new conservation practices, such as no-till, will help producers meet growing global food needs. The No-Till Passport Series is brought to you by Martin Industries.

No-Till, Cover Crops Protect Soils on Ohio Farm

By Dusty Sonnenberg posted on November 6, 2023 | Posted in Cover Crops

Source: Ohio Country Journal

The topography of the Champaign County, Ohio area makes much of Jack Sommers' farmland a candidate for no-till and cover cropping practices. Sommers feels that cover crops help protect the soils and build up organic matter among other advantages.

Farmer in Southeast Asia Goes From Opponent to Advocate of No-Till

October 17, 2023 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: FAO

Joaquim Caldas took some serious convincing about the idea of adopting Conservation Agriculture (CA). But now, the 67-year-old farmer from the village of Uma Boco, near the north coast of Timor-Leste in Southeast Asia, is one of the most enthusiastic champions of the approach. The No-Till Passport series is brought to you by Martin Industries.

Iowa State Offers How-To Guide for Organic No-Till

Organic Agriculture Program releases no-till publication guide

January 20, 2023

Source: Iowa State University

The Iowa State University Extension and Outreach publication “Organic No-Till Production” provides a “how-to” for organic no-till production in Iowa, which utilizes a rolled down cover crop to facilitate weed suppression, with the commercial crop drilled, planted or transplanted into the rolled mulch.

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No-Till Highlights: June 30, 2022

June 30, 2022 | Posted in Equipment, Seeding & Planting, Strip-Till Farming

No-Till Farmer editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at the grower's realm from the lofty digital realm. Here is our favorite content from the past week from across the web. “No-Till Farmer's Best of the Web" is brought to you by Mixmate by PRAXIDYN.

Frankly Speaking

More Double-Cropping Means More No-Till

By Frank Lessiter posted on May 27, 2022 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

With a push by the Biden administration to expand double-cropped acres by 100% over the next 8 years, you can bet most of this anticipated increase will be no-tilled. After all, farmers have long recognized no-till makes the most economic, cost-cutting and environmental sense when double-cropping wheat and soybeans.

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On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Yetter Farm Equipment, longtime no-tiller Ross Bishop shares some of the keys to achieving even corn emergence with no-till.

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