The Rural Voice, 1991-08, Page 23screen com varieties for cold tolerance and
shoot development, sometimes a problem
in no -till soils that are slower to warm up
in the spring than conventional tilled soils.
They hope to rate them into three groups
— excellent, good and average.
Like Don Lobb, Shillinglaw says that
farmers have to take a systems approach to
no -till and just can't take one component
by itself. "It's a system approach that has
to be customized for each farm. You have
to be flexible."0
12 TIPS FOR
THE SUCCESSFUL USE OF
NO -TILL CROP PRODUCTION
by Don Lobb
1. Good soil drainage is important — more
Important than soil type.
2. Always use the shortest possible crop
rotation. Change crop types each year if
possible.
3. Nitrogen for corn should always be
applied below the surface residue.
4. Move most of the residue off the crop
row area with planter -mounted equipment
(never leave more than 10 per cent cover)
when corn follows corn, cereals, or sod.
5. Adjust weed control strategy to take
advantage of the different weed
emergence/crop emergence relationship.
6. Be sure that all vegetation is dead
before crop emergence.
7. Apply all phosphorous in a side band
with the planter
(minimum 20 lb/ac).
8. Apply at least part of the potash
requirement in a side band.
9. Do some In -row tillage with planter -
mounted equipment, enough to assure
accurate seed and fertilizer placement
10. Careful selection of crop varieties for
stress tolerance is critical. Different
stresses are Introduced when tillage is
changed.
11. Be careful with oat, wheat or rye
residue — without proper management it
can reduce yield
of the following crop.
12. THINK SYSTEMS: No -till Is a
conservation crop production system
which does not employ primary tillage.
Tillage (or lack of It) may not affect crop
yield more than fertilizer management,
weed management, careful variety
selection, etc. A change of any one
component can effect any any other
component within a crop production
system. Example: reduced tillage changes
weed spectrum, which changes herbicide,
which means reselecting crop varieties for
tolerance to replacement herbicide.
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