No Till Notes: Reminiscing

I recently attended No till On The Plain’s Whirlwind field day at Steve Tucker’s farm near Venango, Nebraska.  These are educational field days on all aspects of continuous no till crop production.

I was invited to speak on crop rotations on dry land acres in our semi-arid region and I also spoke about water conservation on our irrigated continuous no till production acres.  No till crop production has allowed producers in our area to continuous crop with the extra moisture stored in the soil on our dry land acres.  On our irrigated acres we have been able to significantly reduce our...