What I've Learned From No-Tilling: Donning No-Till Armor To Save Soils

By Martha Mintz posted on November 1, 2014 | Posted in Soil Health

Lucas Criswell is pushing his 30-year no-till system another step higher by seeding row crops into taller cover crops and using precision technology to safeguard nutrients and the environment.

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NAME: Lucas & William Criswell

LOCATION: Lewisburg, Pa.

YEARS NO-TILLING: 30

ACRES: 1,800

CROPS: Corn, soybeans, wheat, cereal rye and yellow peas

I wish I could rewind and start over no-tilling with what I know now. The longer we no-till, the more we learn about what was really happening in our fields as we made the transition, and what we could have done then to take our soils farther, faster.

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KEYWORDS allelopathy from cereal rye Conservation programs fear of planting reen holding soil moisture precision management
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Martha Mintz

Since 2011, Martha has authored the highly popular “What I’ve Learned About No-Till” series that has appeared in every issue of No-Till Farmer since August of 2002.


Growing up on a cattle ranch in southeastern Montana, Martha is a talented ag writer and photographer who lives with her family in Billings, Montana.

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