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- A Clinton area farmer who, has been using
.:40tillalia.CeaServation practices on,liblarm
.•:- since t981 sees no -till as a necessity to
eliminate the deciMMg productive potential.
of *evil on the steeper Slopes oibislarmas
well as areas where soil , types are not: well
adapted -2M "uo-till,•
"‘Altir sithdelds that are sustainable ats 90
gerient of full potential will vesy Shortly
-.4.be j'highbr than yields on eroding land under
nventional till," observes Don Jobb.
• Why should n� -till work for Dan Lobb when
" frequently reported results from on • farm
tillage trials, demonstrations by_ various „
gOvemment* and Ontario researdi have
tended to produce condescending comments
at best? •
In °the instances of the farm tillage trial
* 6010 Ib. G.V.W. reports and government demonstrations,
Serial No. 508521 L3b6 says the least familiar tillage systems
IN STOCK FOR are disadvantaged because he suspects a
IMMEDIATE DELIVERY predetermined production formula is used,
without reganl for the needed 'adaptation
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To complicate matters, immediate, Yield
•comparisons are deemed necessmy to justify
time and dollars spent. Thus a system such as
no -till is treated as a culiiiiifflatlier than -a-
-possible solution to snecific problems.
"The object as I see it," says obb,
• 'should be to determine where and how it .
can be fitted tolocal conditions and individual
• _ management
The results of .Ontario tillage lesearch
' produces headlines like, "Fall Plow Offers
• Ibp Com Yields", or researchers' comments
• like, "Average No -1111 c Dili 3rields decrease is
mination,ofthe facts
following com. In all other arealf,11Wagpasts
good potential. The conservation tillage yield
relationship indicated in this paper is attain-
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"We alreaditaieW that dattimous corn
neither good for the soil or our bank
accounts,!! observes Lobb.
Long term Mora tillage trials, which
mclude no -till vs conveiltional till JAI* some
orsideratiori'lhe predh;tidyie.„Sehl reduc-
tion associated with rehtimOus min is
evident. It is hatiemting _to note that reemit
no -till Yields, m the longest rinMing trial at
thia' Site; are very Close to those of comma -
timid tiff The question raised is, are_. we •
seeing the result of biological adjustment in
the soil or improved equipment?
BESe-ttridc# ifieladeS alliai than very
recent inaihave.kneationahle ,• ue as a
measnrinEPotential for a iilialle ,411 says
Lobb. Researeheis taetiliatfflia..litailiiiill as
they use a new system. .
"I gather as much information as possible,
consider it and then relate it to *situation,
with as much objectivity as possible," says
LM. "The same principle applies.to farmer
testhnoniaLs, magazine adides or whatever."
On the positive side, anient.Pniversity of
Guelph led; which does 'pet include coin
following craps Mimi' than ;06rii' has the
potential to- prOduce snore practical
and informa-
tion morgusetidtillagerecomrhendritions,
in terms of today's needs. Work Of the
tillage team at the Guelph university has been
limited, Lobb suspects, by the Jacket Ontario
conmilbnent to tillage research. "
The result is that Lobb must look to the
United States for compiehenaive tillage vs
soil type vs crop historytoninarisons. Lobb
believes the best is a Purdue University
pape.r. As lith Ontario studies, no -till corn is
disadVantegxl con fine textured vvhen
indites that with few excePfionS, tillage •
research in Ontario has been done in terms of
• the continuous corn ethic which was popular a
decade ago,