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| Well this is my 25th continuous no till crop. Notill is like marriage the longer you do it the better it is. O.K maybe not all marriages are that way but you got to stay with the same (no till) system to make it work. One or two years of no till is not no till. No till ground goes through a transition period. I call tillage "artificial tilth" because it requires annual maintenance to keep it current. With no till you are converting your soil to a more natural tilth. That being said there is a period while converting to continuous no till when the ground has neither "artificial tilth" or "natural tilth" and this is the period that discourages most new no tillers. Why? Because if mother nature deals you a bad hand then yields suffer. This is the year when you must decide if you're committed to this "new" system of farming. As for me I'm glad I stuck it out? I would not consider farming any other way. | |
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any long term no-tillers?
