In the battle over who gets to rent farmland today, no-tillers should show landlords that they will make improvements to their property.

Compaction, earlier planting, susceptible varieties, a major biological reaction and excessive rain have all played a role in creating huge problems with Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS) in soybeans this year, says Bob Streit, a crop consultant and owner of Central Iowa Agronomics in Boone, Iowa.

Got weeds? Calcium may be part of the solution as it has been for Oldham, S.D., no-tiller Ron Kaufman.

When corn roots grow strong and stretch beyond 8½ feet deep, you must be doing something right.