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USDA: No-Till Leads Soybean, Wheat in Conservation Tillage

October 25, 2022 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Residue Management, Nutrient Management

Source: USDA

No-till production, a type of conservation tillage in which farmers plant directly into remaining crop residue without tilling, has increased substantially for wheat and corn over the past two decades.

Research: When Tillage Rises, So Do Greenhouse Gas Emissions

By Brian O'Connor posted on April 21, 2022 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

The researchers report that uncertainty about the most recent period (2016 to today) remains high, and point out that herbicide-resistant weeds, which appear to have driven farmers back to tilling during the increase period, remain an area of concern.

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No-Till Adoption Growing

By John Dobberstein posted on December 9, 2015 | Posted in Residue Management

The no-till movement seems to be going strong across South Dakota. That’s the conclusion, at least, of this year’s South Dakota Cropping Systems Inventory, which is a statistical ‘snapshot in time’ for the types of cropping systems farmers are using in the state.

Strip-Till Corn Profitability Tops Mulch-Till, No-Till

May 27, 2010

Strip-till lost the bragging rights about yields to mulch-till in a 4-year, onfarm study conducted in Illinois. But profits from strip-till topped thos of mulch-till and no-till in the study.

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If You're Running A Fluffing Harrow, NRCS Maintains You're Not Really No-Tilling

By Frank Lessiter posted on November 1, 2009 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Residue Management

If you ran a fluffing harrow over some of your ground last spring just before planting, you may be surprised to learn that the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) no longer considers those fields to be no-tilled.

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If You’re Running A Fluffing Harrow, NRCS Maintains You’re Not Really No-Tilling

By Frank Lessiter posted on November 1, 2009

Sharing The Wealth (Of Information) Grows A Healthy No-Till Community

Strong leadership, open minds, tradition and shared fate combine to create a neighborly no-tilling network.

By Ron Perszewski posted on January 1, 2005

Many no-tillers admit they don’t talk to their neighbors about the ins and outs of conservation tillage. Why should they?

No-Till Expands By 7.1 Million Acres

U.S. cropped acres being no-tilled grew from 20 percent in 2002 to almost 23 percent this year.

December 1, 2004 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

While some growers and educators figured the U.S. no-till acreage might have decreased during the past 2 years, it instead turned in an astounding increase of 7.1 million acres. Much of the increase occurred in the Great Plains states where no-till is helping growers make more productive use of limited water.

Secrets Spell Sorghum Success

This Kansas no-tiller credits early planting, timely rains and insect protection with earning last year’s national grain sorghum yield title.

May 1, 2003 | Posted in Crop Protection, Nutrient Management

What started out as an experiment with no-till grain sorghum has led Benedict, Kan., farmer Jerry Guenther to national prominence as one of the country’s top-yielding grain sorghum producers.

Nearly 20 Percent of Cropland Is No-Tilled

During the past 2 years, the national no-till acreage increased by an astounding 3.2 million acres.

By Frank Lessiter posted on December 1, 2002 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

With no-till used on 55 million acres, this highly popular reduced-tillage practice turned in a dramatic increase of nearly 3.2 million acres during the past 2 years.

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