No-Till Notes: 'Concepts and Attitudes'

The past couple of weeks I attended No till On the Plains winter conference and the Colorado Conservation Tillage Association’s High Plains No-till Conference. I enjoyed both conferences and felt each had a lot to offer. After getting home and taking some time to think about what I learned, it dawned on me that nobody told me anything about how to farm. Not one speaker told me how deep to plant my corn, what herbicides to use, or what crops to plant. I still left both conferences with knowledge about how to improve our farming operation but no one gave me a road map of how to do it.

What I did...