In my area no-till is hit or miss, This year was a hit dew to a dry summer. If you go out of my area no-till works more consist, With that said let me pass on what my cousin found out. He farms 1500 acres and 16 years ago he went to all no-till. Every thing went fine the first 4 years then the 5 year yields started going down and he started getting washes in fields that never had them. 6th and 7 year were no better with yields down from 55bu beans and 229bu corn to 32bu beans and 175 bu corn. The 7th year was a wet fall and about 500 acre were rutted up so he had to work to ground the next spring. He went in and diked the rut's up and got the chisel plow and went to the field, And found out just how hard the ground was. Several trips to JD for chisel plow parts. His beans and corn that year on the ground he worked made 63bu beans and 268bu corn and the no-tilled ground was 29bu beans and 168bu corn. The next year he worked another 500 acres up and his yields went up as before and the long time no-till ground went down even further. Now I have to say he always keeps his ground limed and fertilized per soil samples over all these years and rotates his ground with corn, soybeans and wheat and 200acres of hay. He still no-tills every year but he works up about 500 acres every year and now his yields are staying consistently higher. Now every 3 years the ground gets worked in a rotation. He has even went back to the moldboard plow to turn the built residue under and likes the results in the yields. He said the cost of burn down and round up beans he can work the ground cheaper and plant non-GMO beans and corn and come out ahead on the worked ground and gets a dollar a bu more for the non-GMO beans and corn. He said with the way he farms now working ground and no-tilling and crops in a rotation he is making more money now than he ever did his crops always yield and look good now. I don't think no-till every year on the same ground will ever work around here. Ground needs to be turned over, Worked after 3 years to keep from getting a hard pan close to the top. Just my 2cents. Bandit
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