We are in western South Dakota and the crop that does the best around here is winter wheat. We do a minimum tillage and one of our neighbors does no-till. It just so happens that this neighbor's wife is our insurance agent, so she knows what our yields are and she knows what their yields are. Every year, when we report our bushels to her, she comments, "I wish ours were that good." My brothers insurance agent says that he can go back for several years and pick out the no tillers from a tiller by looking at the yields. Almost every time, the tillers have better yields. The worst wind erosion around this area this last winter was from some no-till guys. They had very little winter wheat germinate, so they had nothing to hold the soil. They also had very little growing last summer so there is very little old crop residue. Last summer there was very little winter wheat raised in a 25 mile circle around us because of the extreme drought conditions of the summer of 2012. Just about the only people that raised anything were those who did some tillage. The no-tillers just couldn't get their air seeders to go deep enough to get moisture to bring the crop up last fall. The ONLY wheat we harvested last summer was on ground that had been swept once. That loosened it up enough so we could hit moisture. That ground that we no-tilled was so hard it was just ripping up big chunks.
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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