“Reduce the number of passes, reduce how aggressive the machine is or reduce the depth it goes into the soil,” she says. As a general rule of thumb, reduced tillage should leave at least two ...

“Farmers want to incorporate heavier residues and level minor ruts after harvest and then use the same machine for vertical tillage in the spring to prepare the seedbed.” Early vertical ...

Hughes, University of Minnesota Extension The new University of Minnesota publication “Conservation Tillage Systems for Corn Following Soybeans” was developed to assist producers ...

The weather is wet now, but there is planning to be done, from ordering seed to checking soil tests for lime requirements and ...

When it comes to buying equipment for your no-till operation, there are several things to keep in mind to be successful.

An extension educator says the journey to reducing tillage begins at harvest. Jodi DeJong-Hughes is with the University of ...