River bottom no-till success: Strip-till corn and no-till beans work well for Missouri farmer.

摘要

By erasing three words from his vocabulary — can't, won't and don't — Woodbury County, Mo., farmer Randy Rogers has done what most local farmers have been unable or unwilling to do — successfully strip-till corn and no-till soybeans on the MissouriRiver bottoms.He has established a profitable and sustainable cropping system on 1,500 acres near Sergeant Bluff that includes little soil-disturbing activity like tillage and overfertilization.