Questions regarding modifications and selection of no-till planters and drills are among the most popular topics being discussed by visitors on the No-Till Farmer sponsored Web site Bulletin Board.

“I’d bet every no-till couple has valuable farm office management ideas they could share at the National No-Tillage Conference in Cincinnati,” says Elaine Hottel of Burkittsville, Md. “Trading valuable farm office management tips, tricks, techniques and forms could be a very valuable part of next January’s meeting.”

Regardless of what tillage system was used, no-till consistently provided a moisture advantage over a 3-year period in the Mid-Atlantic Cropping Systems Project at Port Royal, Va.

Thanks to polymer seed coatings, western Canadian no-tillers are already making fall dormant seeding of canola work.

“I don't get it,” a leading farm magazine editor said to me at the conclusion of the seventh National No-Tillage Conference in St. Louis, Mo., in January of 1999.

How would you like to use a new sprayer in your no-tilled fields that would use only half as much pesticide as conventional sprayers, yet still do as good or even better in controlling insects and weeds?

Results of A recent California judicial ruling indicate plowing and deep ripping of wetlands may be against the law. As many no-tillers have maintained for years, the cropping and environmental perils of plowing may finally be recognized when it comes to controlling erosion and protecting our land.