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Is Your Dealership Ready for Growing Use of Cover Crops?

September 4, 2015 | Posted in Niche Equipment Markets

While the use of cover crops is not new, interest in the benefits they can produce is growing. U.S. farmers are on track to plant cover crops in their normal rotations to the tune of more than 20 million acres by 2020. The interest in keeping something growing on fields year round is rooted in farmers’ search for increased yields, better management of natural rainfall, reduced soil erosion, boosting soil organic matter and better overall “soil health.”

Tillage or No-Tillage: High Yields or Soil Health?

The growing emphasis on soil health could be a deciding factor in what type and how much tillage farmers will utilize in the future.

By Dave Kanicki posted on April 10, 2015 | Posted in Product Innovations & Introductions

Dealers who haven’t picked up on the push for “soil health” in the last few years haven’t been paying enough attention. When you see mention of ag-related trends in media like the New York Times, it’s probably not because they were looking to write something about agriculture.

No-Till Used on Over Half of Major Cropland Acres, but Not Continuously

December 5, 2014 | Posted in Data & Forecasts

Source: USDA

Soil health improves when farmers refrain from disturbing the soil. While no-till production systems are increasingly used on land in corn, soybeans, and wheat — the three largest U.S. crops by acreage — they are not necessarily used every year.

Dawn Equipment Co. Launches DawnBIOLOGIC Division

January 15, 2014 | Posted in Precision Ag Sales & Service, Manufacturer News

Equipment manufacturer Dawn Equipment launches DawnBIOLOGIC products to offer farmers a simplified means of adopting agronomic practices involving high levels of biodiversity and cover crops.

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