No-Till Farming in the 80's

My grandpa was no-tilling in the 70's here in Indiana, over the sand hills he'd sow wheat in the fall for erosion control and plant right through it the next spring, I'm 41 and farm the ground now, I've never plowed an acre of this farm or seen my hills blow on a windy day, no water gulleys or trenches and my fertilizer dealer says I have the easiest probing soil he samples in the fall, If it's wet I stay off the field so I don't cut trenches or ruts or cause compaction, I have a lot of respect for that farming practice due to saving the soil as much as possible, doesn't work for everyone but works for me I suppose

My dad straight out of college early 70’s convinced his dad and gpa to plant one field no-till. He was the first in the county to do it. It was a huge success.

That beep you hear every few seconds is for the projector operator to put up the next slide.

Fascinating video and thanks for posting. I was born in '58 and grew up on an Iowa Farm. I remember the chemicals but Dad never let me be around them. Dad wouldn't even let me apply anhydrous. I was just his tillage hand and ran the plows and the disk and also the grain trucks or tractors & grain wagons back and forth from the fields to our grain bins. I always felt that those chemicals affected Dad's health.

If you could put some of these new farmers back in the 70s.. They wouldn't know shit.

Back when you could make a living on 400 acres now the Feds want mega farms

I would like to see a video on combining beans with a corn head next

Ironically, I have to till to keep my soil from eroding. It's hard pan clay. Not every method works for every farmer.

Just seems to me this is being pushed on us too hard. The same technique was used on us with commercial fertilizers in the 50's and 60's. I am a wary of all of this information blitz. I have a degree in Ag but it was 1971. I don't think the "science" taught then has changed, and has merit. I am out of farming now, but know farms flourishing with the "old school" farming methods of crop rotation and fallowing. JMO

Would be interesting if their ground is being notilled today!?

It dont hurt to till a little...We are 2/3rds no till..But will usually work it where corn is going and like to chisel in where our groung gets flooded..

ahh the 7000 and its dam Seed timers ... Deere wanted $400 each row to calibrate them and they walked out on their own or if you changed seed they needed calibrated... thank goodness eventually they let out the info so others do it for less...

We do no till and guys in my class asked why and its like, cause it works

What's up with the combine using a corn head on soybeans at 0:36?

My dad would work the ground till it was powder.. disc, chisel, disk again, add anhydris, then plant. If it got rained on before planting, disc again…

Broomsaig?

Can some senior farmers say anything about the chemicals used in this video? Seems very toxic compared to the ones used today.

Poison

Did 24D kill these guys or struck by lightning..?

I cringed when he said paraquat. I know too many old farmers with Parkinson's or Alzheimer's linked back to that stuff.