No Till Notes: 'It's More Than No Tillage'

Over the past 40-plus years, many producers have moved from a wheat/fallow production system to an ecofallow system that includes a summer crop, to a continuous no till crop production system.

Each system adds intensity with wheat/fallow having a wheat crop every other year, to ecofallow with crops grown two out of three years, to a continuous no till system where a crop is grown every year. As the intensity of these production systems increases the diversity of the crops produced also increases. With a continuous no till crop production system on dry land acres, we adopt crop rotations sim...