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Using Mustard to Measure No-Till Soil Health

By Noah Newman posted on August 17, 2024 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

Fun fact — did you know mustard can be used to measure soil health? I didn’t, until I saw this video. This is from the Soil Health Alliance for Research & Education (SHARE) field day at the Arlington Research Farm in Madison, Wis., Aug. 7. Research assistant Logan Barr is using a mustard liquid mix to draw out earthworms.

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Cover Crops & Strip-Till Part of 200-Bushel Soybean Recipe

By Noah Newman posted on August 16, 2024

On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Martin-Till, Smithville, Ga., strip-tiller and cover cropper Alex Harrell shares the main takeaway from his record-breaking 218-bushel soybean yield.

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More Moisture with a Side of Mustard Takes Dryland Farm to New Level

Gordon Gallup credits moisture savings and precise fertilizer placement for his early no-till success, while mustard has reduced pests and nitrogen needs.

By Gordon Gallup and Martha Mintz posted on June 11, 2016 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Nutrient Management, Water Management

Dryland with only 16 inches of annual rainfall means farming a lot of acres if you want to support a family and turn a profit in eastern Idaho. That also means farming a lot of hours — at least it did when we were farming conventionally.

Canadian Governments Invest in New Canola Research Lab Focused on Plant Pest Surveillance

January 30, 2015 | Posted in Crop Protection

Source: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

The Canada and Manitoba governments have provided $250,000 in research funding and $969,000 for equipment to help identify and address problems caused by canola diseases and pests.

Controlling Mustards in Wheat

December 19, 2014 | Posted in Crop Protection

Source: Kansas State University Extension

To keep yield losses to a minimum, mustards should be controlled by late winter or very early spring, before the plants begin to bolt, or stems elongate.

Cereal Rye, Rape Protect Soybeans From Diseases

Results from an Illinois study find that no-tillers might be able to use cereal rye and winter rape to suppress diseases for the following soybean crop.

By Laura Barrera posted on January 1, 2014 | Posted in Cover Crops, Crop Protection

There is no shortage of yield-robbing diseases with soybeans, but a tool no-tillers may be using could help prevent them.

Corn And Soybean Herbicides And Fall Cover Crop Establishment

September 4, 2011 | Posted in Cover Crops, Crop Protection

Source: Dwight Lingenfelter, Penn State Weed Specialist, Penn State University

One of the more common questions that I have been asked recently is whether the corn or soybean herbicide program will pose a problem for seeding fall cover crops.

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Preserving The Fertile Soils Of The Palouse

Going 100% no-till in 1997 has placed Read Smith in position to help lead the effort to protect the fragile farmland of eastern Washington.

By Read Smith and Ron Ross posted on September 1, 2008 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Cover Crops, Nutrient Management

We're no doubt biased, but my family and I think there are few more breathtaking views of production agriculture than seen from the highest point of our farm in the Palouse region of eastern Washington. In midsummer, flowing fields of crops — which may include wheat, canola, barley, sunflowers, mustard, alfalfa, peas and lentils — stretch across the hills to the horizon.

Do More With Direct-Seeding And Limited Moisture

Thanks to direct seeding, Washington landowners spend more dollars, but end up with higher returns.

By Frank Lessiter posted on September 1, 2007 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Residue Management

Having been 100 percent no-till for 7 years on 3,500 acres, Glenn and Bryan Dobbins are among only a few area farmers who don’t rely to some extent on summer fallow to conserve limited moisture.

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World Records Still Leave Room For Higher Yields

Kip Cullers says he — and other no-tillers — can produce yields that go beyond levels that already leave some observers in disbelief.

By Kip Cullers posted on August 1, 2007 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

It's an understatement to say that we’ve had a lot of publicity since harvest of 2006, when the word got out that my farm had placed first or second in three categories of the National Corn Growers Association yield contest (including a first-place 347.26 bushels per acre in a no-till irrigated class) and also weighed out a world-record soybean yield of 139 bushels per acre with conventional tillage.

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