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Monte Bottens Highlights Tile Water Monitoring Project

By Noah Newman posted on February 12, 2025 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Cover Crops

The No-Till Conference presented Monte Bottens with the Most Outstanding Speaker Award for his 2024 presentation, “Making Grazing So Easy a Corn Grower Can Do It.” During his acceptance talk, Bottens highlighted some of the on-farm trials he’s got going on this year in Cambridge, Ill.

Fitting the Cover Crop to the Farm & Making Money Doing It

By Mackane Vogel posted on February 11, 2025 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Cover Crops

Last week I told you all about our upcoming National Cover Crop Summit and promised to showcase lots more great topics and speakers so without further ado, here is Gary Zimmer, another one of our speakers, to preview his presentation about fitting the cover crop to the farm and how to make money doing it.

Being Intentional with Cover Crops in Your Farm System

By Noah Newman posted on August 18, 2024 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Cover Crops

At last week’s National Strip-Tillage Conference in Madison, Wis., I had a chance to catch up with Gary Zimmer, also known as the father of biological farming, who was attending the conference in hopes of learning more about how strip-till can fit into his biological farming practices.

Midwestern BioAg Announces Acquisition, Outlines Growth Plans

July 8, 2014 | Posted in Precision Agriculture

Source: Midwestern BioAg

Midwestern BioAg Inc., Proteus Environmental Technologies and Grower's Secret Inc. (GSI) announce the completion of a strategic acquisition and investment in the future of Midwestern BioAg Inc.

Balancing Soil Helps No-Till

October 1, 2010 | Posted in Nutrient Management

Oconomowoc, Wis., no-tiller Robert Miller uses a biological farming system to balance the soil. Miller and his sons Luke and Nick no-till 3,600 acres of corn, soybeans and winter wheat. They use cover crops to build soil organic matter and gypsum to balance calcium and magnesium levels.

Weeds Make Themselves Scarce When Calcium Enters The Picture

Applying calcium to balance soil nutrient levels and manage weeds allows no-tillers to reduce herbicide rates, cut fertilizer costs and increase profitability.

By Martha Ostendorf posted on October 1, 2010 | Posted in Crop Protection, Nutrient Management, Soil Health

Got weeds? Calcium may be part of the solution as it has been for Oldham, S.D., no-tiller Ron Kaufman.

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