Some zero-tillers in Manitoba are taking a sober second look at herbicide-tolerant crops and the impact they might have on the economics of their no-till systems.

To expand your no-till knowledge, here are a half dozen in-depth no-till books and reports to boost your no-tilling profits in 2002. Each is jammed with dollar-building ideas and cost-effective ways to trim your no-tilling costs.

When it comes to making a decision on whether to purchase an air seeder or drill for no-tilling soybeans, small grains or other crops, don't expect to reach any quick and easy answers.

If there's one thing zero-till farmers aren’t afraid to do, it's trying something new. That might explain why a new pesticide-free production (PFP) system being explored by a team of Manitoba researchers is attracting so much interest from the province’s no-till farming community.

If you ever had doubts about long-term no-till, you needed to listen to four farmers speak at last winter’s Manitoba-North Dakota Zero Till Workshop in Minot, N.D.