The magic piece of equipment that moved that residue so we could get good seed placement was trash whippers.” Corn ... No till could help save time and eventually money, but don’t go into ...

No-till planting of sweet corn into a killed winter rye cover crop has the potential ... In addition, cereal rye and previous crop residue can interfere with the seed furrow and planting equipment, ...

“A good match would be no-tilling soybeans and using strip-till, vertical tillage or conventional vertical tillage to plant corn into soybean residue,” he says. “Both of those systems are ...

One of the most important parts of any conservation or farming operation is establishing goals to work toward. It is easy to do the same thing year after year because of limited time or finances.

Today this former grassland, which includes much of the famous Corn ... residue. In contrast, no-till methods merely create in each planted row a groove just half an inch to three inches across ...

When it comes to planting in no-till ground there are four important steps. The first is covering residue ... parking the tillage tool and jumping into the planter and planting without doing ...

“Sugarbeets into corn — I don’t know ... going to be sugarbeets into the no-till,” Johnson says. But like Melton, he is curious about what the crop residue will mean for soil health ...

Our flax is grown for seed and also ends up in bulk bins at grocery stores, our durum is made into ... till their soil is to get rid of weeds—that a full one-third of the U.S.’s total annual pesticide ...

No-till farming came into practice following World War II and ... areas that wouldn’t grow anything yielded 180 bushel of corn,” Bottens said. “We’ve seen just tremendous increases in ...

oday’s corn plants are tough ... improve planting performance in no-till fields, beginning in the fall following harvest. Cover crops can help break down residue. “The whole winning game ...

In the Bible, Isaiah told the people to beat their swords into ploughshares ... He grows barley, oats, wheat, corn, soybeans and other crops using no-till planting, cover crops, mixed farming ...

“You may need less fertilizer as well because you’re getting the breakdown of the residue that is contributing nutrients back into the soil,” he added. Furthermore, no-till practices ...