Strategic Farming: Let's Talk Crops program offered virtually
Sessions will run from 9 to 10 a.m. Wednesdays from Jan. 5 through March 30.
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Sessions will run from 9 to 10 a.m. Wednesdays from Jan. 5 through March 30.
The weekly live online event begins Jan. 5 with a discussion of crop fertility.
Events and classes scheduled in the outdoors, gardening and farming. Submit your event at news@wctrib.com by noon on Tuesday.
Bill Spiegel Conventional wisdom long holds that tillage is necessary to warm up soils and remove soil moisture in the spring, especially in Northern states. However, plenty of farmers are stopping tillage and seeing the benefits of improved soil structure, says Caley Gasch, assistant professor of soil health at NDSU. “With less soil disturbance, the soil structure develops. Changes can happen quickly – in three to four years – and you see roots penetrating deeper and exploring more of the soil,” she says. “We’ve had decades of research and know how destructive tillage can...