No till vs Vertical tillage vs Conventional tillage

Mark shows the difference between no till, vertical tillage and conventional tillage in two fields.

[adeereplowboy]

Frost in the soil pushes rocks up even in no--till fields. They just show up better in a black tilled field.

[bikinglikebecker]

I ilke the idea of using grass as a cover crop.. cut it real short and plant crop while drying the hay and grass is short.. I like barley, then cut the grass AND the "ripe" barley with harvester to separate the barley while leaving behind the hay & barley straw mixed like "Pre-Silage" to be baled or collected in a loading wagon...
from what I can tell no-till & cover crops reduce the need for fertilizer AND irrigation while increasing yield.. any barley seeds that make it past harvester end up on the field & growing with next crop..

[noneyall]

Do you know the science behind no tilli g. My yard is dead lacks nitrogen.

[freedhardwoods]

Not a very convincing argument at all. He doesn't even know what vertical tillage is. He said it's shallow tillage to chop residue. Some vertical tillage is shallow (field cultivator), but the main benefit is from using a ripper 12" to 18" deep to loosen the soil for better water and root penetration. It really doesn't have anything to do with chopping residue although a disc ripper will chop it.

[gillenzfluff]

No till must help keep the planet cooler as less heat would get absorbed by the leftover crop residues!

[Jefflevans]

You address an issue that is cosmetic or on the surface. Why don’t you dig some roots on some of your long time no-till and see what they’re telling you. I attended a field day some years ago where a pro no-till agronomist announced that on that particular year in his region they had acre after acre of pancaked roots and he couldn’t explain it. It is quite easily explained “God cast Adam out of the garden to till the ground from whence he was taken”, and he’s never said to stop. Soilcursebuster.com