ST. CLOUD, Minn. – After a year of difficult weather and low commodity prices, farmers everywhere are cutting back on costs. At the Conservation Tillage Conference (CTC) in December, many growers looked at the economics of reduced tillage/no-till and cover crops, and whether or not those management practices really pay off.
Economics of no-till and cover crop; does it really pay off?
Jennifer Hahn, Middle Minnesota Watershed planner with the Redwood County Soil Water Conservation District and Brain Pfarr, farmer and resource specialist, presenting at the 2019 Conservation Tillage Conference.





