My father and grandfather started experimenting with no-till in the late 1960s with the primary goal of stopping erosion. The steep hills we farm would simply wash away when you worked them up.
Washington no-tiller Byron Seney created an attachment that let him fasten a draper header to a tractor to swath and windrow wheat stubble for his baler.
North Dakota strip-tiller Paul Anderson doesn’t just assume the equipment and strategies he uses will work. He makes them work by adapting them to his farm and needs.
Precision technology, cover crops and better planting and fertilization equipment helped Lee Thelen preserve variable, highly erodible soils and expand his Michigan no-till operation.
After striking a deal in June to have Great Plains Mfg. supply twin-row planters, Case IH showcased the new technology at its media event in Racine on Aug. 9, 2012.
Hot mid-summer field conditions are affecting upcoming harvest, and while soybeans are still developing, corn ear diameter has been established in most fields.
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Brownsburg Ind. no-tiller Mike Starkey shares his initial reactions to the agricultural funding cuts and federal freezing that the U.S. Government has executed on. While he expresses a general nervousness from his local farming community, Starkey says, “We’re going to somehow overcome if there's any issues with [funding] regardless, because I'm going to continue what I'm doing."
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