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Volume: 50
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    New Lines of Winter Camelina Show Promise for Profitable Relay Cropping

    University of Minnesota scientists are tweaking winter camelina lines to provide Northern Plains growers a profitable winter cover crop to supplement corn-soybean rotations.
    New lines of winter camelina are showing promise for northern growers who want to profitably use cover crops to exploit off-growing-season sunlight and rain, reduce erosion, improve soil health, sequester residual nutrients and combat weeds. 
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    What I've Learned from No-Tilling

    No-Till and Cover Crops Deliver More From Field and Pasture

    Putting all moisture to use growing something beneficial helps push semi-arid dryland production to the next level.
    Western South Dakota is dry. The last few years it’s been really, really dry. In the drought conditions we see all too often anymore, I’m very glad we no longer till the 750 acres we use to grow forage to help support our 600-head commercial cow/calf herd. 
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    Working Through Challenges with Cover Crops in Sticky Soils

    Strip-tilled crops and cover crops are taking hold on Neil White’s Scotland farm, although wet weather, compaction and pest pressure still cause plenty of challenges.
    2021 has seen me — after 5 years of direct drilling — drill malting spring barley into oats for the first time. I had a big volunteer oat crop due to cutting wet oats at harvest, which I left into winter. 
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    Highlights from the 2021 National Strip-Tillage Conference

    The in-person conference offered a wide range of topics and outstanding speakers for growers to learn from and interact with.

    More than 300 growers and industry professionals from across the globe gathered in Omaha, Neb., in early August for the 8th annual National Strip-Tillage Conference (NSTC). At the event, growers dove into topics related to strip-till management, soil health, cover crops and increasing profits from their operations.


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    Autonomous Mobile Grazing Brings Biodiversity Back to the Land

    Moving livestock from place to place is nothing new, but a new solar-powered, autonomous system with integrated water collection may make it easier than ever.

    AT THE END of 2019, when corn prices bottomed out at about $2.70 per bushel, Zack Smith realized he would need to find new ways to be profitable on his 305 acres of strip-tilled corn and soybeans.


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    winter-camelina.jpg

    New Lines of Winter Camelina Show Promise for Profitable Relay Cropping

    University of Minnesota scientists are tweaking winter camelina lines to provide Northern Plains growers a profitable winter cover crop to supplement corn-soybean rotations.
    New lines of winter camelina are showing promise for northern growers who want to profitably use cover crops to exploit off-growing-season sunlight and rain, reduce erosion, improve soil health, sequester residual nutrients and combat weeds. 
    Read More
    cowcalf-pairs-graze-sorghum-sudangrass.jpg
    What I've Learned from No-Tilling

    No-Till and Cover Crops Deliver More From Field and Pasture

    Putting all moisture to use growing something beneficial helps push semi-arid dryland production to the next level.
    Western South Dakota is dry. The last few years it’s been really, really dry. In the drought conditions we see all too often anymore, I’m very glad we no longer till the 750 acres we use to grow forage to help support our 600-head commercial cow/calf herd. 
    Read More
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