Tech | November 27, 2009 | 6 comments

"No Till Farming" of cotton and food the answer to buying locally made clothing and food, plus steel manufacturing in Detroit to make these.

source: http://www.progressivefarm.com/whats_new.php

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What are strip till and conservation tillage?

Strip till

Stip tillage is a relatively new form of conservation tillage initially developed by Progressive Farm Products. During the last 20 years, the techniques of no-till and in-row sub soiling have been combined to produce a valuable line of strip till equipment.

Strip till preserves all of the crop residue left from the previous year's harvest. Only a narrow strip of this residue is removed in which the seed is planted. Mounds are created in this narrow strip during fertilizer application in the fall, creating a warmer, drier seedbed.

"It fools the corn into thinking it was field cultivated," says Vern Williamson, director of marketing for Progressive Farm Products. "Our rule of thumb is to run [the knives] 6.5 in. deep at 6.5 mph to get good fracturing of the soil."

http://mobile.ohiofarmer.com/index.aspx?ascxid=cmsNewsStory&rmid=0&rascx...
Gore consults with a soil specialist in this link.

http://www.agriculture.com/ag/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/ag/story/data/1259158481231.xml
Another News story about soil compaction hurting farmers and no till working well.

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6 comments // "No Till Farming" of cotton and food the answer to buying locally made clothing and food, plus steel manufacturing in Detroit to make these.

  • CarolynGillis
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      CarolynGillis  

    • Right.
      There are no locally made clothes.
      This truly sucks.
      Even less in existence are organic fabrics.
      There is a huge black hole in the market.
      I posted that I was going to find a bathrobe for myself for $60 locally made and organic and it was pretty impossible..I can get someone to make it for me but the fabric is not made locally.

    • 2 years ago
  • samthesixth
  • royulery
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      royulery  

    • in the 70's it was chisel plowing. it drug a long prong deep enough to rip up the clay pan left from decades of plowing and tilling. it didn't turn the soil and it let some air in. later we found double digging which disturbed the soil less but airiated the soil more. the trick is to allow the roots to breathe, most of a plants mass (excluding water) comes from the air not the soil. at night the roots need oxygen as they grow, just as the top of the plant does.

    • 2 years ago
  • CarolynGillis
  • CarolynGillis
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      CarolynGillis  

    • http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.cals.vt.edu/news/pubs/innovations/jan2009/images/NoTillB_000.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.cals.vt.edu/news/pubs/innovations/jan2009/notill.html&usg=__cEKG8azunEJwmKCPl2LhdCJbaRM=&h=375&w=500&sz=58&hl=en&start=13&sig2=2Yd3iiBMUxGSp4SDGFX0aQ&um=1&tbnid=ULkJb6MG5W8evM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dno%2Btill%2Bfarming%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dopera%26rls%3Den%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1&ei=gbEPS4fyEZHQlAfOnbC7Aw
      ...xxx

    • 2 years ago
  • CarolynGillis
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      CarolynGillis  
    • Image

    • http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=no-till
      Key Concepts
      Conventional plow-based farming leaves soil vulnerable to erosion and promotes agricultural runoff.
      Growers in some parts of the world are thus turning to a sustainable approach known as no-till that minimizes soil disturbance.
      High equipment costs and a steep learning curve, among other factors, are hindering widespread adoption of no-till practices.

    • 2 years ago
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