Lebanon, Pa., no-tiller Darren Grumbine discusses some of the nutritional challenges he’s faced no-tilling corn and the new approach he took this year feeding nutrients to the crop when they’re needed using tissue tests and on-farm trials.

In case you missed them, here are the items that have garnered the most interest from farmers in the month of October.

No-tiller David Groff from Cedar Meadow Farm in Holtwood, Pa., talks about the farm’s experience this year no-tilling hemp and the cover-crop mix and fertility plan they followed during the growing season. He also talks about the effect weeds and vegetation had on insect pests targeting their crop.

At the 2019 Pennsylvania No-Till Alliance Field Day, veteran no-tillers Jim Hershey, Brian Zimmerman, Ben Peckman and Frank Stoltzfus share how they’ve set up their planters and fertilizer application systems to no-till cash crops into living cover crops.

It doesn’t happen every year, but it does occur – snow accumulation before harvest is complete. Here are some considerations and tips from Iowa State University for dealing with this unfortunate situation.

After much anticipation, the USDA announced their interim ruling and federal guidelines for U.S. hemp farmers, including guidelines for how hemp will be sampled and tested for THC content. This new ruling will come into effect once it is published in the federal register on Oct. 31 and will sunset after 2 years, when a final ruling will be put into place.

With 7% of corn acres yet to fully mature and 97% of soybeans dropping leaves, the 2019 harvest season is well underway but still lagging compared with a year ago, according to the USDA’s Oct. 27 Crop Progress report.

According to NASS, Illinois producers harvested 36 percent of the corn crop and 52 percent of the soybean crop by October 20. That’s still behind the average pace of harvest, but harvest continues in many areas this week, and as it progresses, fields in many areas are becoming available for fall field work to begin.

Lewis Krueger, CEO of Cross Slot Systems explains how the company engineered the Cross Slot drill to require no more than 12 psi, thereby minimizing the risk of introducing soil compaction.