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What I've Learned From No-Tilling: Cover Crop ‘Epiphany’ Helps No-Till Take Another Step

A trip to North Dakota a few years ago sparked a new revolution for Curtis Furr’s decades-old no-till system.

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NAME: Curtis Furr

LOCATION: Albemarle, N.C.

YEARS NO-TILLING: 45

ACRES: 1,000

CROPS: Corn, soybeans, cotton, popcorn, winter wheat and cereal rye cover-crop seed

My father and grandfather started experimenting with no-till in the late 1960s with the primary goal of stopping erosion. The steep hills we farm would simply wash away when you worked them up.

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They started with an old John Deere Grassland drill to sow new ground. It had shovels…

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Frank Lessiter

Frank Lessiter founded Lessiter Media in 1981 and has spent more than 50 years in the agricultural and equine publishing business. He still oversees all of the company's publications as Chairman and Editorial Director, with an Emphasis on American Farriers Journal and No-Till Farmer magazines.

Contact: lessitef@lesspub.com
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