No-till notes — What a mess

I was visiting with neighbors a few weeks ago about the bountiful harvest we were having in our area on our irrigated crops. The sugar beet and edible bean harvests were both above average in yield provided you had the irrigation water necessary to keep the crop in good shape. The early corn harvest yields were also showing an above average corn harvest could be expected.

The following week “The Wind” came roaring through our region for a couple of days. The airport weather station reported 77 mile per hour winds. I heard wind speeds as high as 84 miles per hour on a neighbor’s...