Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Barbara Fischer" <cen12205@centurytel.net>]

If your farm is very large I don't see how you can go to no-till completely.
I have an 80 acre farm in central Illinois and we don't till as much as we
used to but I'm sure not hoeing it by hand!!!!

Barbara
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Meadows" <pat@meadows.pair.com>
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing"
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Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] A No Till Question for Larger Fields


> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:36:06 -0600, you wrote:
>
> >
> >I have been following the no till discussion with interest but the
question comes to my mind of how would I manage no till on my family farm
that has been uncultivated now for over 20 years? The fields are full of
johnson grass and I'm trying to figure out how I'd create a no till farm in
this environment. Johnson grass is very aggressive.
> >
> >Any suggestions?
> >
>
> I'd write to NewFarm.org with this question.
>
> Pat
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