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Residue, Water Management Key to Winning No-Till Corn Yields

By John Dobberstein posted on June 11, 2016

A protective blanket of ground cover and better water infiltration allow Tyler Franklin to irrigate crops with less water and boost soil health.

Pictured Above: MORE EFFICIENT. Tappahannock, Va., no-tiller Tyler Franklin estimates long-term no-till saves him about 3 inches of water per year on his irrigated fields. “Every time you run a disc, plow or offset disc, you’ve lost about an inch of moisture per pass,” he says. “If you have a season where it’s dry to start, you could really use that.”

Whether it's irrigation or dryland acreage, Tyler Franklin doesn’t believe high corn yields and…

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KEYWORDS Chesapeake Bay region corn residue National Corn Grower Assn. no-tilling corn Tyler Franklin
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John Dobberstein

John Dobberstein is the Senior Editor of No-Till Farmer, Strip-Till Farmer, and Cover Crop Strategies. He previously covered agriculture for the Tulsa World and worked for daily newspapers in Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Joseph, Mich. This is John's second stint with Lessiter Media, the previous lasting almost 13 years.

Contact: jdobberstein@lessitermedia.com

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