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Is Inflation Hurting Conservation Adoption?

By John Dobberstein posted on October 31, 2024 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Cover Crops, Equipment

Researchers at the University of Illinois conducted a thorough review of federal data to analyze how inflationary pressures are affecting the reach of USDA’s conservation assistance to farmers. Read on to see what they found.

Coming Back ‘Home’ to No-Tillers Never Felt Better

I’ll be putting my energies to work, along with our editorial staff, to make the No-Till Farmer properties even better than they are now.

By John Dobberstein posted on October 8, 2024

Sometimes you just know when you’re “home,” and I’m proud to say that after a three-year hiatus I am back working for you as senior editor of the Growers Division at Lessiter Media.

Conservation Ag Operator Fellow Loran Steinlage Receives 2023 Iowa Leopold Conservation Award

Loran Steinlage of West Union has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 Iowa Leopold Conservation Award®.

August 29, 2023

Source: Sand County Foundation

Loran, who owns and operates FLOLO Farms in Fayette County, will be formally presented with the $10,000 Leopold Conservation award this December at The Big Soil Health Event in Cedar Falls.

Drought Management

How No-Till Can Help Your Operation Survive Drought Conditions

June 8, 2023 | Posted in Cover Crops, Water Management

Struggling with drought? Find practical solutions using no-till and cover crops with the help of our recommended articles from No-Till Farmer and Cover Crop Strategies.

Which Category Do You Fall in — Messiah or Pariah?

By John Dobberstein posted on November 14, 2019

Will the gradual change in farm production practices to more wholistic methods, including no-till systems, be fought in coffee shops or courtrooms? Read about battles flaring up in two different states.

U.S. No-Tilled Acres Reach 96 Million

By John Dobberstein posted on May 9, 2014

Nearly 25% of all cropland in the U.S. is no-tilled and 44% of acres see some type of conservation tillage, says the USDA's 2012 Census of Agriculture.

What I've Learned from No-Tilling

Residue Provides ‘Armor’ For Dryland No-Till

Creating, maintaining and manipulating residue helps keep Jacob Wagers’ high-elevation, low-rainfall no-till operation in Colorado diversified and productive.

By Jacob Wagers and Martha Mintz posted on January 1, 2014 | Posted in Water Management

We live on the edge with moisture here in dried-up northeastern Colorado.

How No-Tilling Can Help 'Weatherproof' Your Farm

Protective residue, proper soil management and a better understanding of how plants use water could help no-tillers and strip-tillers survive today’s extreme weather patterns.

By John Dobberstein posted on May 1, 2013 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Soil Health, Water Management

If you ask Jerry Hatfield, the 2012 drought wasn’t just a blip on the radar screen.

There’s No Competing With Long-Term No-Till

After jumping into no-till practices more than 2 decades ago, Iowa no-tiller Randy Caviness has been rewarded with more fertile soils, earlier planting and a stronger balance sheet to compete with neighbors.

By John Dobberstein posted on May 1, 2013 | Posted in Equipment, Nutrient Management, Soil Health

Even as no-till was growing during the 1980s, Randy Caviness wasn’t completely convinced about the practice. He worried about weed control, and he hadn’t seen many examples of no-tilled crops working very well in his area.

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Forget About All The Hype! No-Tillers Don’t Want To Lose Any Nutrient, Soil And Environmental Benefits From Selling Residue Out Of Their Fields

By Frank Lessiter posted on May 1, 2013

No-tillers definitely understand the value of leaving residue in their corn fields. They recognize that corn stalks, leaves, husks and cobs help reduce soil losses, provide cheap nutrients, trim greenhouse emission levels, boost moisture levels, help organic matter, improve soil quality, reduce compaction and increase crop productivity.

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