In 1977, Rod Nelson had accumulated enough savings to pay down 348 acres of farmland near Chatfield in the rolling hill country of southeastern Minnesota.
Jim Kinsella, who helped pioneer no-till and strip-till farming systems in the U.S., is receiving an environmental award from the Illinois Corn Growers Association.
John Young, no-tiller in Herndon, Kentucky, talks with No-Till Farmer editor Frank Lessiter about what his farm means to the history of no-till farming.
dairy farm family with a long history of soil conservation has been chosen to receive the Leopold Conservation Award from Sand County Foundation and the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation.
The latest bi-annual tillage transect results, compiled by the Indiana State Department of Agriculture and the Natural Resources Conservation Service for 2011, show that 23% of the Indiana's corn crop and 59% of soybean acreage were no-tilled.
Source: By Gary Schnitkey, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois
Retail anhydrous ammonia prices again are on the rise. The October 13, 2011 Illinois Production Cost Report by the Agricultural Marketing Service placed the average Illinois price of anhydrous ammonia at $853 per ton, up $52 per ton from the July 7th price of $801 per ton.
Producers using a no-till wheat/row crop/fallow rotation may find that row crop yields in such a rotation are higher in years with relatively normal weather when the wheat stubble height is taller
While actually preparing a farm for no-till is getting rather basic these days, preparing yourself or neighbors to successfully make the shift to no-till is much more difficult.
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On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Martin-Till, Smithville, Ga., strip-tiller and cover cropper Alex Harrell shares the main takeaway from his record-breaking 218-bushel soybean yield.
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