No Till Notes: Water Conservation

I’ve been busy building my power point presentations for the No till On The Plains and High Plains No till winter conferences. I’ve been asked to speak about water conservation at each of these conferences. I’ve always thought that our limited groundwater supply would be a driving force in the adoption of continuous no till crop production practices in our region on irrigated acres.

Surface water irrigation is a moving target as the levels of surface water fluctuate with the snowfall in the mountains and precipitation during the growing season. There is also a connection between groundwater le...