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Marion Calmer, Why Aren’t You Cover Cropping Instead of Plowing to Fix Vertical Stratification?

By Michaela Paukner posted on February 16, 2024 | Posted in Cover Crops, Nutrient Management

In the last several years, vertical stratification in no-till fields has turned into a heated debate, thanks to No-Till Farmer Living Legend and No-Till Innovator of the Year Marion Calmer and what he is — and isn’t — doing to one of his long-term no-till fields.

Placing Soil Stratification Under a Microscope

By collecting soil samples by the inch, veteran no-tiller Marion Calmer pinpointed why he was seeing nutrient deficiencies in his crops, despite soil tests indicating otherwise.

By Laura Barrera posted on November 3, 2022 | Posted in Nutrient Management

It was at the 2017 National No-Tillage Conference that Marion Calmer began to wonder if stratification was a problem on his no-till farm in Alpha, Ill.

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