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Equipment Adjustments Help Keep No-Tiller Successful

Farmer shows the advantages of using no-till on his farm

By Nicole Heslip and Hayden Lessiter posted on August 6, 2024

Source: Brownfield Ag News

A lifelong no-tiller says equipment adjustments have helped improve his soil health and profitability.

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Nebraska Study: Producers Evaluate Practices to Increase Soybean Yield, Profit

April 26, 2022 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

Source: University of Nebraska

As planting gets started, you may be considering what management practices will increase soybean yields. In 2021, Nebraska farmers completed a three-year on-farm research study which evaluated a suite of management practices that could increase soybean yield and profitability.

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Profitability Strategies: Earning with Indigo Carbon [Webinar]

October 15, 2020 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Cover Crops

If you have questions about how Indigo’s soil health programs can help you maximize profitability, tune in for our overview in a webinar with a regenerative farmer. Gain insights to quickly achieve your agronomic and financial goals. [To view any of our webinar replays, you must be logged in with a free user account.]

Trimble Connected Farm Field App Measures Field Profitability

January 20, 2015 | Posted in Precision Agriculture

Trimble announced it will be adding a profit and loss reporting feature to its Connected Farm Field application — a Web-based field data management tool where growers can manage field boundaries, task data, crop health maps and precipitation data.

Yellow Field Peas Could Boost No-Till Profits In High Plains

Yellow field peas provide High Plains no-tillers with an excellent wheat transition crop that helps build soil quality and, with recent market developments, have the potential for profitability.

By Mark Parker posted on February 1, 2014 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Water Management

No-tillers across the Nebraska Panhandle and surrounding High Plains region are challenged by low rainfall and high summer temperatures. It’s a double-whammy that limits cropping intensity, as well as crop value.

Variable Rate Technology Plants Seeds Of Profitability

Once they commit to the practice, no-tillers often find that managing planting populations on the go can cut seed costs and maximize yield.

By Jack Zemlicka posted on November 1, 2013 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Precision Agriculture

The global push to increase crop production and keep pace with population projections underlines the importance for no-tillers to make every seed count.

From the Desk of John Dobberstein

How Sharing Ideas Can Help You No-Till Better

By John Dobberstein posted on July 31, 2013

For an established no-tiller to find that “higher gear” and push their operation to a higher level of profitability, it might be necessary to step outside of the daily grind to find a source of new ideas.

Weather Challenges No-Tillers' Profitability

By Darrell Bruggink posted on May 1, 2013 | Posted in Equipment

Thank goodness for high grain prices — and crop insurance, too. A topsy-turvy 2012 saw both the highs and lows of choosing a career as a farmer.

Implement Guidance Paves The Way To Profitability

Technology that keeps field implements in line is gaining momentum as no-tillers and strip-tillers see increased yields, and lower input costs, through improved accuracy with field operations.

By Jack Zemlicka posted on May 1, 2013 | Posted in Equipment, Precision Agriculture

When Jim Irwin began strip-tilling in 1996, one of his biggest frustrations was being unable to precisely place seed in the strips he formed in the fall.

Matching Nitrogen Rates To Strip-Till Profitability

Through research, Minnesota strip-tiller David Legvold and college senior Emma Cornwell found the most profitable rate of sidedressed liquid 28% isn’t always the highest rate.

By Dan Zinkland posted on February 1, 2013 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming

Ever since David Legvold began farming land owned by St. Olaf College at Northfield, Minn., about 9 years ago, he’s worked with university professors and students to document the impacts of tillage and crop inputs on profitability, soil health and water quality.

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Ways To No-Till That Improve Yields & Profits While Protecting Natural Resources - Bret Margraf - NNTC 2015 Presentation - MP3 Download

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On this edition of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by CultivAce, longtime no-tiller Jim Leverich explains why 20-inch corn rows are paying off big time on his Sparta, Wis., farm.

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