The 2022 farm season has several important no-till milestones — no-till’s first commercial plot (60 years), No-Till Farmer (50) and National No-Tillage Conference (30). We’ll add a fourth jewel to the “no-till crown” with the 40th anniversary of a public-private partnership, the Conservation Tillage Information Center (CTIC). The No-Till History series is made possible by Calmer Corn Heads.

While the majors scoffed or ‘looked the other way,’ shortline manufacturers stepped in to innovate. The No-Till History series is made possible by Calmer Corn Heads.

A big booster of no-till, Ned Trovillion designed a unique symbol designed to look like an international highway sign that publicizes the advantages of no-tilling. The No-Till History series is made possible by Calmer Corn Heads.

Country music, gaudy green silk jackets and the costuming of his bride up as a tiger, nothing was off-limits to Dick Foell when it came to attracting attention to the merits of no-tillage. The No-Till History series is made possible by Calmer Corn Heads.

Next month, the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds will “emerge from the cornstalks” in Dyersville, Iowa for Major League Baseball’s now-annual “Field of Dreams” game.

With virtually no prior cropping knowledge, John Franz was an unlikely candidate to permanently change agriculture’s fortunes in 1970 -- when all other Monsanto chemists wanted no part of a dying research project. The No-Till History series is made possible by Calmer Corn Heads.

Glyphosate (or Roundup) brought to market by Monsanto in the mid 1970s and now owned by Bayer) is a virtually ideal herbicide, says international weed authority Dr. Stephen Powles and a “once in 100-years breakthrough.” The No-Till History series is made possible by Calmer Corn Heads.

It was 7 years ago this month that the no-till community lost one of its champions to cancer in Ohio farmer, Ohio State University extension educator and crop consultant Ed Winkle at age 65. The No-Till History series is made possible by Calmer Corn Heads.

When No-Till Farmer (NTF) got its start in 1972, its pages were filled with tips on how to make herbicides like paraquat, atrazine, 2,4-D, Princep and Banvel (an early dicamba formulation) work in no-till systems. In Part 1 of this series, we’ll look at the most important early herbicides for no-tillers. The No-Till History series is made possible by Calmer Corn Heads.