![]() But a proven track record of needing less labor and equipment to produce improved yields was a great foundation for an expanded no-till system.īy Jim Eshelman As interviewed by Martha Mintz When passing a farming operation from one generation to the next, the continuation of no-till practices is hardly a guarantee. In the following pages, we share details of the operations of Jim Eshelman (New Enterprise, Pa)., Bill Drury (Clarion, Iowa), Andy Hawley (Stockton, Ill.) and Don Wirth (Tangent, Ore.), including what got them no-tilling in the first place, what’s changed over the years and the challenges they want to tackle in the coming years. We were pleasantly surprised to get a small handful of responses and ended up following up with four of them. So in the summer of 2021, we emailed our readers to find out how many - if any - have been no-tilling since the early 1970s. ![]() With no-till as a practice having been around for 60 years now, and No-Till Farmer for 50, we wanted to find out if we had readers who have been using the practice consistently for that long ![]()
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