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Farming for water
2015-09-17 22:43:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Farmer uses cover crops, no-till to handle wet soils, weeds. While many farmers rely on spring tillage to dry out wet soils, Jerry Ackerman goes the other way. His cover crop/no-till program helps him handle heavy rains and wet soils better than tillage and drain tiles. In 2013, it even helped him fight waterhemp thanks to the strips of cereal rye he seeded the previous fall in soybeans and corn. read more
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