Episodes

  • The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of Transitioning from Conventional to No-Till

    The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of Transitioning from Conventional to No-Till
    May 23 2024
    When Muncie, Ind., farmer Joe Hamilton decided to switch from conventional tillage to no-till, everyone told him he’d be crazy to make the transition on 1,000 acres during his first year. In today’s episode of the podcast, brought to you by The Andersons’ Over Pass Lineup, Hamilton shares the lessons he learned in year 1 and beyond.
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    51 mins
  • No-Tillers To Benefit From US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Update

    No-Tillers To Benefit From US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Update
    May 10 2024
    No-tillers stand to benefit from updates to the U.S. Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) tax credit. The U.S. Department of the Treasury and IRS released a notice April 30 that details an updated version of the Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions and Energy Use in Transportation (GREET) model, which is used to determine CI scores of SAF feedstocks.
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    39 mins
  • No-Tillers’ Outlook On Autonomy & Best Precision Ag Tools

    No-Tillers’ Outlook On Autonomy & Best Precision Ag Tools
    Apr 26 2024
    More than 91% of no-tillers who responded to the 2024 No-Till Operational Practices Survey use precision technologies on their farms, and many experts see no-tillers on the cutting edge of new agriculture technology like autonomy. In this episode of the podcast, brought to you by The Andersons, no-tiller Nick Guetterman of Bucyrus, Kan.; John Fulton, Ohio State University Extension ag engineer; no-tiller Joe Hamilton of Muncie, Ind.; and no-tiller Tim Norris of the “No-Till Capital of the World” Knox County, Ohio, discuss their outlook on autonomy in agriculture and the most valuable precision technologies in use on their farms.
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    41 mins
  • Part 2: Respecting & Restoring the Land with No-Till Legend Ray McCormick

    Part 2: Respecting & Restoring the Land with No-Till Legend Ray McCormick
    Apr 12 2024
    No-Till Living Legend Ray McCormick has improved and restored thousands of acres of farmland, woodlands and wetlands in the Vincennes, Ind., area and beyond. In this episode of the podcast, brought to you by The Andersons, McCormick takes us on a tour of some of the farm and wetland projects he’s completed around Vincennes.
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    56 mins
  • Never Till, Planting Philosophies & More with No-Till Living Legend Ray McCormick

    Never Till, Planting Philosophies & More with No-Till Living Legend Ray McCormick
    Mar 29 2024
    No-Till Living Legend Ray McCormick from Vincennes, Ind., is No-Till Farmer’s 2024 Conservation Ag Operator Fellow. The annual fellowship spotlights the real-time decision-making McCormick uses to make no-till — or never till as he calls it — work on his farm. In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter Farm Equipment, McCormick talks about how he first got involved with restoring farmland into wetlands, seeding cover crops with the combine, his planting philosophies and more.
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Challenging the Status Quo in No-Till with Roy Pfaltzgraff

    Challenging the Status Quo in No-Till with Roy Pfaltzgraff
    Mar 22 2024
    For this latest episode in this series of Influencers & Innovators podcasts, brought to you by Source by Sound Agriculture, Roy Pfaltzgraff of Haxtum, Colorado, talks about his 30-year assessment of the costs of tillage, no-tillage with fallow and no-till with a soil health focus. Cropping 2,200 dryland acres in an area that receives less than 14 inches of average rainfall yearly, Roy shares his insights from a presentation at the thirty-second annual National No-Tillage Conference on how he’s changed the operation’s focus over the past 8 years while raising 12 or more different crops each year in this extremely dry aera of northeastern Colorado.
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Perfect Spring Around the Corner? 9 Planting Season Predictions

    Perfect Spring Around the Corner? 9 Planting Season Predictions
    Mar 15 2024
    At the 2024 Commodity Classic show in Houston, extreme weather conditions were on many no-tillers’ minds as they thought ahead to planting season. In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter Farm Equipment, managing editor Michaela Paukner talks to 9 growers about their expectations and preparations for the 2024 planting season.
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    28 mins
  • Jeff Moyer’s Roller Crimper That Revolutionized No-Till Farming

    Jeff Moyer’s Roller Crimper That Revolutionized No-Till Farming
    Mar 1 2024
    For this episode of the No-Till Farmer Influencers & Innovators Podcast, brought to you by SOURCE® from Sound Agriculture, listen to No-Till Innovator and CEO at Rodale Institute, Jeff Moyer as he tells the story of how he helped to create and popularize the first roller crimper, which would completely change the game for no-tillers, cover croppers and regenerative ag growers around the world.
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    34 mins