The wheat stem sawfly continued to spread eastward in 2009, giving producers another headache, says Jan Knodel, North Dakota State University entomologist. No-Till and swathing could help provide control against this damaging pest.

Short-term profitability on the no-till farm cannot be the main goal if a farmer wants to remain on the land he farms, says Dwayne Beck, research manager at South Dakota State University's Dakota Lakes Research Farm near Pierre, S.D.

No-Till Farmer readers (www.no-tillfarmer.com) have weighed in on the products that performed the best in their no-till operations, citing the Keeton Seed Firmer as the “2009 No-Till Product Of The Year.”

The final report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the 2009 corn and soybean harvest is one for the record books. Despite poor planting conditions, a cool, wet growing season, and an abysmal harvest that still sees mostly corn standing in fields, American farmers shattered records for both yield per acre and total production.

University of Minnesota Extension will host the sixth annual no-till Conservation Tillage Conference and tradeshow Jan. 27th and 28th, 2009, at Jackpot Junction, 39375 County Hwy. 24, Morton.

Many New Year’s resolutions for most of producers and the wish of many commodity suppliers, is better yields and better quality for 2010. Ohio State University plant pathologist Anne Dorrance offers some tips to help you achieve this goal.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA has implemented the new Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments program (SURE) in accordance with the 2008 Farm Bill. Vilsack also encouraged producers to visit their USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) county office beginning on January 4, 2010, to participate in the program if they suffered crop production losses during the 2008 crop year.

Syngenta Crop Protection and Halex GT corn herbicide are Weeding Out Hunger at the 2010 National No-Tillage Conference in Des Moines from Jan. 13 to 16.