Tillage is out and grazing is in as the preferred management strategy for our family’s dryland cotton and winter wheat fields. The shift was gradual, but the soil health and bottom-line benefits have grown steadily.
We've been no-tilling for nearly 50 years. You’d think we’d have it all figured out by now, but there’s always something new to try or a novel problem to unravel on our Lam bertville, N.J., operation.
Mr. No-Till is what one farm magazine called my grandfather, Stanley, in a 1991 article. He got our Cedar Hill, Mo., operation started in the practice at the urging of his father in the early ’80s.
I’m not the patient type. My brother Grant has more patience, but he’s not slow to act. If a farming practice makes sense to him, he’s game to implement it.
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