"Torsten Brinch" wrote in message
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 15:46:09 -0500, "Gordon Couger"
wrote:
"Torsten Brinch" wrote in message
Tillage Survey News Release 1995-1996, and still no RR beans in sight:
No-till soybean acres now account for 30 percent of all soybean acres
planted in the U.S."

That's a no till crop not no till farming on a long term basis over a
period
of years

Right on! No till beans is a crop, not a farming system:

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 00:34:05 -0500, "Gordon Couger":
Before RR cotton and beans there was no such thing as no till
cotton or beans.

We have been able to raise no till crops that way for a lot longer than
that. Experiments have been going on since the 60's. Looking at the
herbicides they used in all the experiment stations in that time frame there
are a number of weeds that are not controlled. As long as you don't have
these weeds and they don't show up you can get away with it. It was not a
viable long term way of farming. Because the weeds quickly show up.

Short term no till is not much benefit to the soil or the farmer other than
save a little money. It is sure no barging for the environment with the
persistent herbicides used at that time.

Play all the word games you want. Without Round Up ready crops long term no
till is not possible with cotton and beans. Unless you do it like the fellow
that rotated wheat and cotton every year. That way he can mange the summer
weeds on the wheat stubble and the winter weeds on the cotton stalks. It was
practical for him because that was all the water he had. If he had enough
water he would have planted all cotton most of the time.

Gordon