My father, Art, truly stumbled into no-till by pure happenstance. In the early 1980s he decided he needed to get away for a day or two so he took a drive to North Dakota.
With planting delays in some areas due to wet conditions, growers still have time to fine-tune and calibrate their sprayers to save money and protect the environment, according to Ohio State agricultural engineer and spray technology expert Erdal Ozkan.
From July 16th, 2013 - August 15th, 2013, we asked No-Till Farmer readers: "What percentage of your cropping acreage wasn’t planted this year due to excessively wet conditions?"
Strip-tilled corn after soybeans yielded more 17.6 bushels per acre more than no-tilled corn in 2009 in head-to-head comparisons of five hybrids on-farm trials a the Conservation Cropping Systems Project near Forman, N.D.
No-Till Farmer readers sound off about their no-till planter setups and the technology that helps them move residue to get proper seed placement and great corn stands.
Wet fall, wet spring, wet fall, wet spring. It seems no-tillers need to get used to making things work in a more aquatic-type system, our recent survey of No-Till Farmer readers found. In fact, how our readers’ no-till planter setups worked in wet conditions was a common thread in the replies we received.
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Franck Groeneweg, who no-tills a variety of crops on more than 12,000 acres near Three Forks, Mont., shares how his massive Johnson-Su bioreactor system allows him to apply compost extract in furrow during planting season.
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