Even though no-till isn’t the norm in his area, Barry Evans has been faithfully notilling his wheat, grain sorghum and cotton crops near Kress, Texas, for 14 years. 

When it comes to no-till adoption in the Great Plains and Pacific Northwest, new figures released this month from the 2012 Census of Agriculture paint a mixed picture. 

If you carry crop insurance and have considered seeding cover crops on your summerfallowed acres, do your homework this spring before hauling out that drill or air seeder. 

So you think the Dust Bowl era is gone for good? Maybe not. Over the past month, I’ve seen some photos that seem to indicate how far agriculture has to go. 

One of the hottest topics discussed at the No-Till Oklahoma Conference this week was cover crops, as growers look for ways to help fields survive scorching droughts and volatile weather that are seemingly becoming the norm here.