No Till Notes: 10 Tips, part 6

We found out this spring how important continually adding carbon into our soil is here in this region. With our somewhat low organic matter content soil we really need to continually grow high residue crops a high percentage of the time to keep the soil in good condition.

We are transitioning our farm on our irrigated acres to a winter wheat (followed by forages for grazing), dry edible bean, corn, yellow field pea rotation from a winter wheat, corn, edible bean rotation. During this transition phase we planted a field that was corn to edible beans the following year. To get this field into ou...