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18th Annual National No-Tillage Conference Des Moines, Iowa * Jan. 13-16, 2010!19th Annual National No-Tillage Conference Cincinnati, Ohio * Jan. 12-15, 2011"
Taking a Can-Do Approach With YOUR No-Till Farming
System It is really about YOU!
Thomas E. Oswald Cleghorn Iowa 51014
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A Number to Ponder!
6600
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Oswald Farm We don’t no-till because we have to…
it is how we CHOOSE to farm.
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Cleghorn Iowa
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The trees you see were planted!
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Tom and Susanne Oswald
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20th Anniversary Gift
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So let me tell ya a story
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Master’s Degree 1995
Yield Response to Row Cultivation of No-Till Corn
Looked at tillage, weed control, soil effects from tillage, and other factors in the field and in literature review.
Early 1990’s
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Why the Response?
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Guiding Concepts Learned over Time and Study
• Tillage is Temporary • Tillage begets Tillage • Temperature Management outweighs
tillage • Mother Nature is a No-Tiller • More Roots – Less Iron
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Tillage is Temporary
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Strip Till Corn/Corn 2007
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Case/IH 1200 Semi-Mounted Stacker Planter
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Our Friend the Earthworm
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4’ Deep Earthworm Holes
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4’ Deep Earthworm Holes
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Where Do You Want to Go?
• What Does Success Look Like For YOU?
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• Understand the guy in YOUR morning mirror.
• What does it take to make you confident?
• How do you handle challenge and change?
• How do you make decisions?
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Surprises Happen
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“Man’s Got to Know His Limitations"
“Dirty Harry” Callahan Clint Eastwood
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What are YOUR Limitations?
• Most large businesses have some form of personnel management and personality profiling.
• Industrial psychology is big!
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Pro/Con of No-Till What do you CHOOSE to focus on?
• Pro Positives – More Yield – Looking for Challenge – Less Time – Less Fuel – Less Erosion – Gov’t Payments – Better weed control
• Con Concerns – Yield Less? – Equipment – Knowledge – Wet soils – Fertilizer – Manure Plan(s) – Weed Management
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It’s All in Your Head! • Most things remain
constant even when many things are changing.
• You don’t HAVE TO be “right”.
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It’s All in Your Head! • See the future as a
picture puzzle. – Look at things from
different angles • Things we expect to
happen always happen more slowly than expected.
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Yesterday and Today
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Some Headlines Repeat..Not All
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Yesterday and Today? More Precise Planting Big Equipment will be
tough to get with production sold out six months ahead.
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What’s Old is New Again 1974 Successful Farming
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Old Yet New 1940’s
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Old Yet New 1940’s
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Change Comes Slowly 1953 Till Planter Late 1970’s Ridge Till
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1962 Twin Rotor Corn Harvest
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Look Familiar?
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Combine of the Future, circa 1976
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1991 Farm Industry News
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1991 Soybean Digest
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Build A Set of Guiding Principles to Navigate the
Noise Build Flexibility and
Sustainability into YOUR System
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Guiding Concepts Learned over Time and Study
• Tillage is Temporary • Tillage begets Tillage • Temperature Management outweighs
tillage • Mother Nature is a No-Tiller • More Roots – Less Iron
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MOTHER NATURE IS A NO-TILLER!
Soils Form in ABSENCE of Tillage Adapted Plants Grow JUST FINE!
Tillage is a Catastrophic Event
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Mt. Desert Acadia Nat’l Park
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Field Research • It is NOT about the ANSWER… It is
about the NEXT question….WHY?
• Data will tell you anything you want to hear if you torture it enough!
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On-Farm Network http://www.agtechonfarm.net/ • 10 states headed for 11 • GPS-Yield Monitors • Scientifically supported methodology • Value in pooling data • Helps to calibrate practices locally!
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Replicated Strip Trials Fertilizer
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Replicated Strip Trials Harvest
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Headline Study
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Statistics
• Replicate, Don’t Average to Check • Variation of the Check vs. Treatment • L.S.D. is for Close Calls • Liars can figure especially if they have
something to sell.
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Adaptive Management Model
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Summary
• Know Yourself • Build Guiding Principles • Build Confidence through Research,
Study and a Network of People • Change is Good and doesn’t have to be
feared as it doesn’t always happen fast
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• The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
You paint your future with your BRAIN, not your hands (paraphrased)
Michelangelo
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18th Annual National No-Tillage Conference Des Moines, Iowa * Jan. 13-16, 2010!19th Annual National No-Tillage Conference Cincinnati, Ohio * Jan. 12-15, 2011"
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18th Annual National No-Tillage Conference Des Moines, Iowa * Jan. 13-16, 2010!19th Annual National No-Tillage Conference Cincinnati, Ohio * Jan. 12-15, 2011"
May YOUR path not be too rocky
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18th Annual National No-Tillage Conference Des Moines, Iowa * Jan. 13-16, 2010!19th Annual National No-Tillage Conference Cincinnati, Ohio * Jan. 12-15, 2011"
Credits • Some information in the presentation was scanned
from the following sources. • No-Till Farmer Conservation Tillage Guide • Farm Journal • Successful Farming • Soybean Digest • New Idea corn publication • IHC History to 1985 book