When your family has been farming the same land for six generations like ours, there’s bound to be a few differences made in how things are done along the way.
With nearly 10 years of no-tilling under his belt, Wayne Brunsman is focused on using cover crops to take soil health and crop production on his Iowa farm to the next level.
To really understand subtle changes in our planet — like moisture held in the topmost earth layer — and their impacts on agriculture and the environment, scientists have to know what is going on in our soils.
The Obama administration finalized the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule on Wednesday to give clarity about which bodies of water the EPA has jurisdiction over.
Areas of North Dakota with a white crust on the soil are expanding this spring due to an accumulation of salts in the soil. This is cause for special management attention from growers, says North Dakota State University Extension.
Farmers don’t like being told how to run their operation. But like it or not, there’s more scrutiny of U.S. farms than ever by state and federal lawmakers, the mainstream media and the public.
An open, dry, winter, followed by a dry, warm spring has left the top soil in many areas of South Dakota much dryer than normal. Livestock producers may find themselves looking for supplemental feed this summer as a result of poor grass growth.
If you looked at the conditions in the Texas Panhandle Plains, in and around Lubbock, you could make a case that it’s a poster child for no-till practices and additional soil cover.
Kress, Texas no-tiller Cody Gruhlkey says reduced tillage on his 8,000-acre farm has reduced crusting, improved wheat yields and made the family’s farm more competitive in challenging conditions.
Figuratively speaking, you could say that 17 years of no-tilling has grown Cody Gruhlkey a barnful of beautifully restored antique tractors on his 8,000-acre farming operation near Kress in the Texas Panhandle.
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On this edition of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by CultivAce, Gregg Sanford, Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems Trial manager, reveals how no-till is stacking up to other major systems in year 34 of the trial.
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