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No-Till & Cover Crops Help Save Farmland from Erosion

September 6, 2023 | Posted in Cover Crops, Soil Health

Source: The Land

Doug Bos is Assistant Director of Rock County Soil and Water Conservation District, where he has worked for 27 years. When he talks about cover crops, he is not only talking of programs, he is speaking of personal experience.

Building Resilient Soil Systems Using Residue, No-Till and Cover Crops

April 2, 2018 | Posted in Cover Crops, Residue Management, Nutrient Management

Source: The University of Nebraska Cropwatch

By adopting continuous no-till and using residue management, more water is available for crop production and the soil system becomes more resilient to extreme events, including drought.

What I've Learned from No-Tilling

Breaking Through the No-Till Barrier with Cover Crops

Adding winter wheat, livestock and cover crops helped Paul Ackley overcome his no-till plateau, simplify his planter and build more productive soils.

By Martha Mintz posted on December 8, 2014 | Posted in Cover Crops

I never was one to like tillage. It just didn’t make sense. You would go through and make a perfect seedbed to plant into and then, without fail, you couldn’t get back in the field with the planter before it would rain. Then you would have to start all over again.

Use Care With Radishes In Erodible Soils

July 24, 2011 | Posted in Cover Crops

Source: University of Wisconsin Extension

Using oilseed radish as a cover crop after winter wheat has been steadily increasing in popularity. However, there is a word of caution for choosing radish as a cover crop on highly erodible soils.

A Holistic Approach To No-Till Carbon Sequestration

Even if you never earn a dollar from sequestering carbon, it’s still in your best no-tilling interests to do so.

December 1, 2001 | Posted in Soil Health

A few years ago, David Dukes, a no-tiller who farms highly erodible land in southwestern Iowa, was interested in protecting his land from erosion. His primary goal: avoid water erosion.

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