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Soil Resilience and Water Holding Capacity

March 20, 2018 Blog

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In a lot of ways, farming success comes down to efficiency How efficiently can a farmer make use of his time? How efficiently can he make use of his inputs? How efficiently can he make use of his available resources? When it comes specifically to those available resources, there is one that stands above the…

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Economics & Soils: Jorgensen Case Study (Part 5)

December 16, 2017 Video

One may take the view that soils are a static, medium to grow plants and place nutrients. If one holds this static view of soils, what the Jorgensens have been able to achieve would simply not make sense; at best it would appear anomalous. If one holds the view that soils are living, dynamic ecosystems…

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Economics: Jorgensen Land and Cattle Case Study (Part 3)

November 28, 2017 Video

In our previous video of the Jorgensen Land and Cattle Economics Case Study, Nick Jorgensen discussed some of the economic savings they were able to realize in their long-term, no-till fields where typically Organic Matter measured over three percent. What the Jorgensen land and cattle operation was able to do in this analysis was save…

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Economics: Jorgensen Land and Cattle Case Study (Part 2)

November 15, 2017 Video

In this video Nick Jorgensen provides a simple calculation related to equipment costs and economics based on what Jorgensen land and cattle may have done 30 years ago in a wheat – fallow system compared to today. By not operating tillage equipment and running a sprayer the Jorgensens are saving between $25 and $45 in…

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Soil Temperature Part 2: How do No-Till Temperatures Catch Up to Conventional Till?

September 12, 2017 Video

In our previous video we saw that by the end of the season, there is no difference in the number of heat units and temperature as seen by a conventional versus a no-till soil.  In fact any differences in cumulative heat units between the two systems disappears by the first week of July.  In this…

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Soil Health = Record Yields?

September 6, 2017 Blog

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It’s been said that what comes easy doesn’t last, and what lasts doesn’t come easy. This adage is especially true when it comes to change. Any change worth making isn’t going to be done overnight and it isn’t going to be realized without difficulty. One Iowa farm is showing the Midwest though that, when it…

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Soil Temperature Part 1: Comparing Conventionally Tilled vs. No Tilled Temperatures

August 29, 2017 Video

In this video, the USDA-NRCS’s (Brookings, SD) Eric Barsness and SDSU’s Anthony Bly discusses and experiment the NRCS conducted in Vermillion SD on a conventionally tilled and a long-term no-tilled field.  Eric buried two temperature probes at 2” and the probes were able to record temperatures every 15 minutes over the entire growing season of…

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