University of Illinois economists project net no-till farm operator returns for 2009 at minus $8 per acre for corn and minus $15 per acre for soybeans, the first negative returns for the decades beginning 1990 and 2000.

BASF announced today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) registration of a new active ingredient, Kixor herbicide, for use on a wide range of no-till crops and effective on more than 70 broadleaf weeds. Starting this fall, four formulations Powered by Kixor herbicide — Sharpen herbicide, OpTill herbicide, Integrity herbicide and Treevix herbicide — will be available to help growers tackle today’s weed control challenges in their fields.

HCC, Inc. is pleased to announce that its innovative Smart-Till® is now available in a 20' model: the Smart-Till ST 203.

The Landoll VTplus was developed with input from producers’ issues on competitive tools they were using.

Agro-Culture Liquid Fertilizers says its new no-till ferti-Rain Foliar Nutrition is engineered to stimulate physiological plant development when foliar applied to a wide variety of crops.

Oxbo International Corp. has introduced the 50 Series cornhead, its first cornhead made for field corn producers.

To harvest the crop efficiently, the no-till combine operator needs to spend pre-harvest time maintaining, adjusting, and setting the combine.

Dow AgroSciences showcased a new refuge-in-the-bag concept at the Farm Progress Show.

Sunflower from AGCO Corp. is entering the strip-till field with its new 7600 Series strip-till system.

Case IH is offering a 42-foot, 5-inch, five-section model of its True-Tandem 330 Turbo vertical-tillage unit.