USAonly, there are often discussions on tillage vs notill over on NAT, a farm discussion site.
Your comments mirror how things are here where I live, but man, your comments would get you strung up over there, no-tillers can walk on water, and their way is the only way, youcan't say you get better yields with a plow or heavy tillage implement! :) :)
I just got a Soil Saver this fall, and worked up my bean stubble. Could sure feel the hardpan in some areas that are typically wet for me. I've done a lot of tiling the past 4 years, see if those low hard clay areas dry out better, and with the deeper tillage, see if my yields come up some. On a dry period like the last 2, it's really important to get the low spots to grow well, when the high spots get dry and thing, the low areas need to have everything go right.
I end up with some of the least tillage in my county, with the 40 acres I let the cattle graze all winter, dealing with the spring cornstalks is a challenge with only spring tillage. Some years it goes well, some years those 40 acres are just a disaster in my conditions, and shows how bad notill would be 'here'. I wish it would work, love to save the fuel and time used to work up the ground, but if you want a crop, you need to prepare a good seedbed.
Maybe some day they will get strip till prefected enough to work here.
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