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Cows on Cover Crops: South Dakota Farmer Adds $86/acre and 70 Bu Corn
On our spring tour of South Dakota farmers integrating livestock, my partner in crime, Joe Dickie, and I left Huron, and a couple of...
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No-Till vs. Tillage: Which Really Lets the Water In?
Jeff Hemenway, former Soil Health Conservationist, pointing out Roots in the Subsoil at 80” in a No-till, Cover-Cropped Field in...
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No-Till, No Yield? Are We Putting Corn Above Soybean Yields?
As a response to several requests for more peer-reviewed material on the economics of no-till (NT) vs. conventional tillage (CT), I went...
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Beyond No-Till: Why Crop Rotations Matter More Than You Think
Natalie Sturm By the Growing Resilience Team For decades, no-till has been hailed as a cornerstone of regenerative agriculture—an...
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When Does No-Till Work? Two Major Studies and What Farmers Told Us
By the Growing Resilience Team When we posted a video of Dr. Dwayne Beck explaining how tillage destroys soil structure and reduces...
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What We’re Really Arguing About When We Talk About Tillage?
By: the Growing Resilience Team A couple of weeks ago, we shared two posts that lit up our social media channels like never before. The...
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