Most farmers like to experiment — whether it’s with seed varieties, equipment setups, nutrient management or other variables — but few no-tillers can say that all of their acres are in some form of an experiment during any one growing season.

With only 300 acres to work with, I have to do everything possible to drive production and justify farming a relatively small piece of ground.

No-tillers who strip intercrop often do so to increase corn yields — the result of exposing more outside rows of corn to the sun.

In a recent entry on The Mitchell Farm Web site (www.mitchellfarm.com), I wrote that “effectiveness comes from getting the one piece of information necessary to make a decision and leaving the rest unseen.” I was referring to how easy it is to get smothered in GPS field-generated data, but often not knowing how to put it to work.