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Meeting The Challenges Of Early No-Tilling

Better planter technology, herbicides, hybrids and varieties helped our farming operation overcome early no-till problems.

By Jim Leverich posted on November 1, 2011 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Equipment, Crop Protection

We’ve been continuously no-tilling corn, soybeans and alfalfa on our farm since the 1980ss. Looking back, I can say it wasn’t as easy to get started back then. The equipment and agronomic tools just weren’t as good as they are today.

Tillage Isn't A Long-Term Solution For Soybean SDS

October 27, 2010 | Posted in Crop Protection

Source: Iowa State University

If you were one of the many Iowa farmers who were hit with Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS) disease in your soybean fields this year, doing tillage on that soil and trying to bury the crop residue is not a good long-term solution.

Is Tillage OK Once Every 10 Years?

There are better ways than moldboard plowing to reduce potential phosphorus runoff in no-tilled fields, experts say.

By Darrell Bruggink posted on June 1, 2008 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

Is there a benefit to moldboard plowing a no-till field once every 10 years? A recent article, “Changing Tillage, Changing Nutrient Management,” in the Spring 2008 issue of Plant Nutrition Today suggested that continuous no-till can lead to accumulation of phosphorus (P) at the soil surface, causing higher P concentrations in runoff.

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Back By Popular Demand

By Frank Lessiter posted on September 1, 2003

One of the most popular speakers to ever appear on a National No-Tillage Conference program, Dwayne Beck, will be in Des Moines to share his highly innovative no-tilling ideas with you at next winter’s 12th annual National No-Tillage Conference. For more effective no-tilling when it’s too hot, too cold, too wet or too dry, Beck will have many of the no-till answers that you need!

No-Till Weed Shifts Alarming

Resistance is increasing as weeds adapt to different tillage practices, rotations and herbicides.

By Joe Shinners posted on October 1, 1998 | Posted in Crop Protection

Doug Buhler is as concerned about weeds as any no-tiller. The weed specialist from Ames, Iowa, is apprehensive about the increased resistance to herbicides that weeds are showing in an ever-increasing frequency.

Justified Cultivation

Adapting tried-and-true no-till to include field cultivation ahead of planting soybeans helped Brent Arp’s earthworm populations rebound.

By Julie Orchard posted on September 1, 1998 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

It's logical that no-till fields would have more earthworms because tillage isn’t breaking apart their homes. What’s illogical is how after 20 years of no-tillage, Brent Arp saw a sudden decline in earthworm populations.

Australian No-Tilling Has North American Feel

By Joe Shinners posted on June 1, 1998

For an example of the Australian no-tilling experience, Jeff Esdaile advises a trip to North America’s Great Plains rather than an overseas flight to the land of kangaroos.

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