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A Closer Look At The No-Till Underground

Ray Weil shares the inside story on the dynamic organisms in productive no-till soils, and what it takes to keep them happy.

By Martha Mintz posted on February 1, 2012 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Soil Health

Soil is a no-tiller’s main business. And as in any business, there is a hierarchy of employees that must work together to get the job done.

No-Tillers Find Success By ‘Keeping It Simple’

Variable-rate fertility, rotating herbicide-tolerant crops and improved soil organic matter helps these Wisconsin no-tillers increase yields and keep expenses in check.

By Ron Ross posted on January 1, 2012 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Water Management

When he turned to no-till in the mid-1980s, Wayne Harrison estimates as much as half of the original topsoil on some of his fields was already gone.

No-Till Plots Yield Answers

50 years of cutting-edge research at Ohio State University’s experimental fields have fueled the acceptance and growth of no-till.

By John Dobberstein posted on November 1, 2011 | Posted in Crop Protection, Nutrient Management, Soil Health

Had two young researchers listened to the ridicule and scorn they faced 5 decades ago, no-till farming might not have grown as much as it has.

Hoorman Takes Cover-Crop Sermon To Minnesota

October 18, 2011 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: By Janet Kubat Willette

Jim Hoorman, an Extension educator with Ohio State University Extension, says tillage and the lack of soil cover for eight months a year are reducing yields and profits.

Roller-Crimper Can Aid No-Till Vegetable System

July 6, 2011 | Posted in Cover Crops, Equipment, Residue Management

Source: By Rick Boydston and Marty Williams, USDA

Cover crop roller-crimpers have several advantages over mowing, in that fewer trips are required to suppress the cover crop, less energy is used, residues persist longer and the residue is neatly laid in one direction, facilitating planting.

No-Till Savings No Longer ‘Chicken Feed’

Due to a tremendous increase in the price of diesel fuel, actual fuel-cost savings for no-tilling have shot up 606% in the past 15 years.

June 1, 2011

Treat the savings in fuel consumption per acre by switching to less tillage alone and you’ve definitely got a substantial savings.

No-Till’s Measuring Stick

Cover crops, stacked rotations and soil cover of 60% or more after seeding are among the pillars of quality, continuous no-till, Rolf Derpsch says.

By John Dobberstein posted on June 1, 2011 | Posted in Cover Crops, Nutrient Management

No-till may be practiced on more agricultural acres in the U.S. than any other country in the world. But South American no-till consultant Rolf Derpsch believes growers here shouldn’t be satisfied.

No-Till Leads To Higher Profits, Better Soil Health For Kentucky Grower

April 17, 2011 | Posted in Cover Crops, Crop Protection, Soil Health

Source: NRCS Grower Profile

Daviess County, Kentucky, farmer Myrel Trunnell, and son Kevin, farm approximately 1,200 acres in Utica, Kentucky.

Tips For Improving Soil Production Capacity And Resiliency

March 23, 2011 | Posted in Nutrient Management

Source: By Dan Rossman, Michigan State University Extension

This is a very exciting time in agriculture with advances in seed technology, new uses for corn and soybeans and soaring commodity prices.

James Uses Diverse No-Till Rotation

March 22, 2011

Source: NRCS Grower Profiles

Robert James grows a variety of no-till crops on his 305 acre farm located in Fayette County Kentucky.

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