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JOURNALCOLORADO
CONSERVATION
TILLAGE
ASSOCIATION
www.HighPlainsNotill.com Spring 2012
Greetings Everyone,
Well, another year and conference has come and gone. I hope this newsletter finds everyone enjoying more spring moisture and better crop conditions than we have had the last few years. As I write this the wheat looks good and the grass has greened up in my area. We haven’t had either of these two things the past couple of springs and it is nice to see for a change.
I hope everyone that was able to attend the conference this past winter took something home with them and will be able to make use of it. Based on the evaluations we received back, the speakers we had are making everyone evaluate what they are doing and possibly causing them to make changes in their own operations. That is one of the most rewarding things that we can accomplish as a board. Getting everyone to constantly evaluate what they are doing and not getting stuck in the “that’s the way we have always done it” rut shows that we are accomplishing our mission of edu-cating farmers and industry personnel.
The CCTA board has decided to make some changes to the web site and registration process. The new web site is up and we hope you like the new look. I would like to thank Jonathan Wagers, Keith Berns, Mark Watson, Wade Hollowell, Storm Casper and Becky Ravenkamp for the pictures. We are moving to online reg-istrations for vendors and sponsors and updating our attendee registration process. We hope this will go smoothly but please bear with us through this transition. I am confident that after we get everything set up it will be something that is much more use-ful and convenient to use.
Make plans now to attend the 25th annual High Plains No-till Con-ference February 5-6 in Burlington, CO and good luck with the coming growing season.
Scott Ravenkamp, CCTA President
CCTA Board of DirectorsOfficers
Scott Ravenkamp, President, Hugo, [email protected] 719-740-0705
Curt Sayles, Vice President, Seibert, [email protected] 970-664-2281
John Deering, Secretary, Akron, [email protected] 970-345-2287
Scott Smith, Treasurer , Cheyenne Wells, [email protected] 719-342-2902
John Fabian, Windsor, [email protected] 970-373-7429
Wade Hollowell, Hugo, [email protected] 719-740-2773
Robert “Bob” Leisy, Greeley, [email protected] 970-396-7100
Cole Mertens, New Raymer, [email protected] 970-768-0953
Ron Meyer, Burlington, [email protected] 719-349-1101
Scott Smelker, Stratton, Colorado [email protected]
Jonathan Wagers, Woodrow, [email protected] 970-554-6559
Vacant
Vacant
Conference Coordinator:Becky Ravenkamp, Hugo, CO [email protected] 719-740-0715
CCTA is a non-profit organization serving all the States in the High Plains Region. It is a resource of experienced farmers working with industry, University and agricultural agency personnel whose goal is to spread research and on-farm gained information about conservation farming practices.
CCTA Board Members
Syngenta Crop ProtectionDerrick Tise418 N Scott, PO Box 83St. Francis, KS 67756785-332-2297
Bill GilbertSunflower Sales ManagerSyngenta Seeds, Inc1107 White Oak CtFort Collins, CO 80525970-223-3167
www.syngenta.com
CropProduction
ServicesTim Carpenter22282 Hwy 34
Ft. Morgan, CO 80701970-542-2993
CPS
21st Century EquipmentCheyenne Wells, CO
Agrotain InternationalWoodland Park, CO
AgSenseBlaine, MN
Assure CropSeneca, KS
BASFBurlington, CO
Big Iron / Stock AuctionSt. Edward, NE
Brothers EquipmentFriend, NE
CargillBurlington, CO
Case IHBoulder, CO
CHS, Inc.Burlington, CO
Colorado Certified Crop AdvisorsFort Collins, CO
Colorado CornGreeley, CO
Colorado Wheat Administrative CommitteeFort Collins, CO
Crop Production ServicesFt. Morgan, CO
Crop Quest, Inc.Dodge City, KS
D&D CommoditiesStephen, MN
DeKalbBurlington, CO
Dorman Brothers LLC,Burlington, CO
Dreamland Industries, Ltd.Abilene, TX
DuPont Crop ProtectionSterling, CO
Durham Ag TechBurlington, CO
Elk River EnterprisesGreeley, CO
Erker Grain CompanyFt. Morgan, CO
Expata SolutionsSalina, KS
Farm & Ranch RealtyColby, KS
Farm Credit of Southern Colorado Limon, CO
Farmer’s New HollandBurlington, CO
Flat River Agri, Inc.Brush, CO
Fontanelle HybredsGreeley, CO
Golden West Agri ServicesBrush, CO
Gordon Insurance AgencyLimon, CO
Gowan USAWindsor, CO
Green Cover SeedBladen, NE
Heinrichs Harvesting CompanyDavenport, NE
JD HeiskellLoveland, CO
Kennedy & CoeGoodland, KS
Kugler CompanyMcCook, NE
Lewton Ag ServicesOtis, CO
LG SeedsBrush, CO
MV EquipmentBurlington, CO
Mycogen SeedsAurora, CO
Nachurs Alpine SolutionsMarion, OH
High Plains National Sunflower AssociationGoodland, KS
Northern Sun/ADMGoodland, KS
Nitro SprayersOtis, CO
Olsen’s Agriculture LabMcCook, NE
Pawnee Buttes Seed, Inc.Greeley, CO
Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Burlington, CO
Red River CommoditiesLubbock, TX
Scott Aviation / Adams GrainFt. Morgan, CO
SEEDS 2000Breckenridge, MN
Shelbourne ReynoldsColby, KS
Simpson Farm EnterprisesRansom, KS
Sims Fertilizer & ChemicalOsborne, KS
SunOpta SunflowerGoodland, KS
Syngenta Crop ProtectionSt. Francis, KS
Triumph SeedRalls, TX
Tucker Testing ServicesHooker, OK
Wagner EquipmentAurora, CO
Woofter Construction & IrrigationColby, KS
2012 Conference ExhibitorsThank you for your supportand we look forward to working with you again in 2013!
2012 Conference Educational DisplaysThank you for your support and we look forward to workin with you again in 2013!
Morgan Community College, Fort Morgan, CONorthern Junior College, Sterling, COColorado Agri-Women, Bennett, CO
Diamond - $4,000+Syngenta
Platinum - $2,000+National Sunflower Association
USDA - NRCS
Gold - $1,000+
Centennial Ag Supply, Co.
CHS, Inc
Crop Production Services
Dorman Brothers, LLC
Farm Credit of Southern Colorado
Gordon Insurance Agency
Kennedy and Coe, LLC
Pioneer Hi-Bred International
Red River Commodities, Inc.
Stratton Equity COOP
Silver - $500 +
DuPont Crop Protection
2012 Conference Sponsors
Bronze - $250+Agrotain International Inc.
Cargill
Centennial Conservation District
Cheyenne Conservation District
Colorado Corn
Gowan USA
Koch Operations
Powell Seed LLC
Premier Farm Credit
ProAg Solutions
Scott Aviation
Seeds 2000
Simplot
Simpson Farm Ent.
Wray State Bank
Basic - $100+Brothers Equipment Inc.
Farm & Ranch Realty Inc.
Farmers State Bank
Triumph Seed / Dow AgroScience
West Greeley Conservation District
Reagan Kays from Weir, KS is attending Kansas State University majoring in Agribusiness. Reagan has interned at the Kansas Department of Agriculture in Topeka, KS and is currently working as an intern in the Office of the President at KSU. He plans to attend the University of Arkansas Law School upon completion of his degree at KSU to secure a food and agriculture law degree.
Devin Mangus from Kanarado, KS is attending Kansas State University majoring in Agricultural and Biological Engineering. At Kansas State Uni-versity, Devin is involved as a student advisor, Secretary for the Quarter Scale Tractor Design Team and Treasurer for the Kansas State Chapter of the American Society of Agricultural and Bio-logical Engineers. He plans to become involved in manufacturing products and providing services to American farmers after graduation.
These young men both received the CCTA $1,000 Scholarship. Scholarships are funded through the silent auction at the annual conference.
Congratulations to the 2012 Scholarship Winners!
We thank our continued supporters and welcome the new sponsors!If we missed anyone or have incorrect information, please call 719-740-7015 or email me at [email protected].
CCTA has added three new board members. Al-though they may be new board members, they are not new to the agriculture community. Ron Meyer, Scott Smelker and Jonathan Wagers have been in-volved in our industry for quite some time.
Scott SmelkerScott Smelker, his wife and three children aged 16, 13, and 6 come from a family that was recognized as a centennial farm in 2008. The Smelker transition to no-till on their dry land and irrigated farm was gradual. They started using con-servation tillage beginning in 1994 with a emphasis on more minimum tillage practices on the dryland acres and conventional tillage on the irrigated acres. In 1998 the farming practices changed to primar-ily No-till with some conventional tillage on the dryland acres and some strip till farming along with conventional tillage on the irrigated acres. In the year 2000 to present everything changed to no-till on every acre of dryland and strip tillage on all irri-gated acres. These farming practices are much easier with guidance systems. It seems that these kinds of practices are more cost efficient in these times of ris-ing inputs. “When I look at the some of the equip-ment that started this over a hundred years ago the only thing I can think of is my great great grand-parents were proud of what they were doing and wanted to take care of the land,” Scott said. “I think that attitude and way of life has to be passed down from generation to generation for any farm to stay in business. I look forward to serving as a board mem-ber with the CCTA and thanks for the opportunity to serve on it.”
Jonathan WagersJonathan Wagers of Woodrow, CO is no stranger to the CCTA. His father was one of the founding board members of the CCTA and his brother Justin has also served on the board. Jonathan, his wife, and three kids joined the family farm in 2005. The dry land family farm has been no-till for 25 years. The farm is a wheat-corn-millet-fallow rotation with the intro-duction of peas to help reduce the fallow rotation. Jonathan looks forward to serving on the board to help educate other farmers about no-till operations.
An “11th Commandment”I was recently given some old farm literature. Upon reviewing the material I found Agricultural Informa-tion Bulletin No. 99 which can be found at http://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/CAT87210309/PDF. It was titled Conquest of the Lands through 7,000 Years and was printed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Ser-vice in August 1953. I found the entire thing very interest-ing but especially the last page. ~SR When in Palestine in 1939, I pondered the problems of the use of the land through the ages. I wondered if Moses, when he was inspired to deliver the Ten Commandments to the Israelites in the Des-ert to establish man’s relationship to his Creator and his fellow men - if Moses had foreseen what was to become of the Promised Land after 3,000 years and what was to become of hundreds of millions of acres of once good lands such as I have seen in China, Ko-rea, North Africa, the Near East and in our own fair land of America- if Moses had foreseen what suicidal agriculture would do to the land of the holy earth - might not have been inspired to deliver another Com-mandment to establish man’s relation to the earth and to complete man’s trinity of responsibilities to his Creator, to his fellow men, and to the holy earth. When invited to broadcast a talk on soil con-servation in Jerusalem in June 1939, I gave for the first time what has been called an “Eleventh Com-mandment,” as follows: Thou shalt inherit the Holy Earth as a faithful steward, conserving its resources and productivity from generation to generation. Thou shalt safeguard thy fields from soil erosion, thy living waters from dry-ing up, thy forests from desolation, and protect thy hills from overgrazing by thy herds, that thy descen-dants may have abundance forever. If any shall fail in this stewardship of the land thy fruitful fields shall become sterile stony ground and wasting gullies, and thy descendants shall decrease and live in poverty or perish from off the face of the earth.
New CCTA Board Members
Sam GrayRegional ManagerKoch Agronomic Service, LLC(515) [email protected]
Diamond - $4,000+• One Sponsored Breakout Session
• Color Full Page Ad in Conference Program• Complimentary 8’x 8’ Booth Space and
Four Complimentary Registrations• Business Card size Ad in 3 Issues of CCTA
Journal• Listed(Name, phone, address, link) on Web
site Sponsor Page• Complimentary Insert in Attendee Packet
Gold $2,000+• Color 1/2 Page Ad in Conference Program• Complimentary 8’x 8’ Booth Space and
Four Complimentary Registrations• Business Card size Ad in 3 Issues of CCTA
Journal• Listed (Name, phone, address, link) on
Web site Sponsor Page• Complimentary Insert in Attendee Packet
Silver - $1,000+• B&W 1/4 Page Ad in Conference Program• Complimentary 8’x 8’ Booth with Space
Two Complimentary Registrations• Business Card size Ad in Winter Issue of
CCTA Journal• Listed (Name, phone, address) on Web site
Sponsor Page• Complimentary Insert in Attendee Packet
Bronze - $250+• B&W Business Card Size Ad in Conference
Program• One Complimentary Registration
• Listed (Name, phone, address) on Web site Sponsor Page
Online Registration Opens June 1stwww.highplainsnotill.com
2013 Sponsorship LevelsNEW!
Ron Meyer
Ron Meyer attended North Dakota State University and holds a MS degree in Plant Sciences. Ron has worked for Colorado State University as an Area Extension Agronomist for 22 years. He currently serves as Colorado State University Extension Agronomist for the Golden Plains Area which includes Kit Carson, Phil-lips, Sedgwick, Washington and Yuma counties. Duties include providing plant science technical expertise to area producers, conducting research with corn, wheat, sunflowers, soybeans and other crops, and discovering and transferring new crop production information to area producers. Ron also serves as Executive Director for the Colorado Sunflower Administrative Committee. He was also named an affiliate faculty member of the Soil and Crop Sciences Department and the Bioagricultural Sciences department at CSU.
Crop Insurance
Zachary Schmidt 303-902-2150 cell [email protected]
“Helping Farmers Prosper”
Board Members Needed! If you or someone you know would like to serve on the CCTA board, complete the nomination online at www.HighPlainsNoTill.com or contact one of the cur-rent board members.
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USDA - NRCSUnited State Department of AgricultureNatural Resources Conservation Service
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Mike Groene308-530-7741
Serving Agriculture Since 1975
719-775-2838PO Box 1150
Limon, CO 80828
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Crop Synergism Can Improve Land ProductivityRandy Anderson, USDA-ARS
Crop diversity often improves yield by reducing pest infestations, improving nutrient cycling, or increasing water supply. A further benefit of crop diversity is that some crops may affect the following crop’s physiol-ogy such that the crop uses resources more efficiently. For example, soybean yields 15 to 20% more fol-lowing corn without using more water or nutrients. Similarly, proso millet yields 20 to 25% more with the same water use following corn compared to proso following winter wheat. We have termed this response synergism.
Dry pea is also synergistic to following crops. Corn and winter wheat are more tolerant of drought stress and weed interference when following dry pea. Furthermore, corn yields more at lower populations follow-ing dry pea compared with corn following soybean. The cause of synergism between crops has not been identified, but it likely involves several biological factors, such as changes in the microbial community.
Rotations that include synergistic sequences can increase land productivity, as experienced by producers in central South Dakota. After several years of no-till and crop diversity, they found that crop yields often exceeded expectations based on water and nutrient supply. For example, Ralph Holzworth farms by Get-tysburg SD, and in the last 5 to 7 years, his corn yields have averaged 155 bu/acre. This yield contrasts with production levels in Brookings County, where average corn yields are 130 bu/acre (see Table below). This yield difference is somewhat surprising, as average rainfall in Gettysburg is 5 inches less than in Brookings County. Also, Ralph’s corn population is 20,000 plants/acre, whereas corn is seeded at 30,000 plants/acre in Brookings County.
Management may explain some of this yield anomaly. Ralph has been in no-till since the early 1990s, whereas producers in Brookings County till their fields with chisel plowing and disking to prepare a seedbed (see Table below). Also, Ralph uses rotations with more crop diversity; one rotation is winter wheat-corn-dry pea-corn-soybean-oat. In contrast, producers in Brookings County grow only corn and soybean. Cal-culating grain production per individual plant shows that corn is 45% more productive in the no-till, crop-diverse system at Gettysburg that in the tilled, corn-soybean rotation in Brookings County. Apparently, corn is more efficient in converting resources into grain at Gettysburg.
Table. Comparison of corn yield, rainfall, and management at Ralph Holzworth with producers in Brookings County, Eastern South Dakota. Holzworth Brookings County Corn yield (bu/ac) 155 bu 130Rainfall (inches) 18 23Corn population (plts/ac) 20,000 30,000Management Tillage No-till (20+ years) Chisel plow, disc Rotation W-C-P-C-SB-O C-S Abbreviations: W, winter wheat; C, corn; P, dry pea; SB, soybean; and O, oat.
Dr. Kristine NicholsSoil MicrobiologistNRCS ARS Northern Great Plains Research LabMandan, ND
Kris Nichols has been a Soil Microbiologist with the USDA, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory (NGPRL) in Mandan, ND for over sev-en years. She was raised on a primarily corn-soybean con-ventional farm in southwestern Minnesota. Kris received Bachelor of Science degrees in Plant Biology and in Ge-netics and Cell Biology from the University of Minnesota in 1995, a Masters degree in Environmental Microbiology from West Virginia University in 1999, and a Ph.D. in Soil Science from the University of Maryland in 2003. Since 1993, she has studied arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi – a plant-root symbiont. Her most recent work involves the investigation of glomalin – a substance produced by AM fungi. Glomalin contributes to nutrient cycling by pro-tecting AM hyphae transporting nutrients from the soil to the plant and to soil structure and plant health by helping to form and stabilize soil aggregates. Kris has been exam-ining the impacts of management such as crop rotation, tillage practices, organic production, cover crops, and live-stock grazing on soil aggregation, water relationships, and glomalin at NGPRL.
Phil NeedhamSponsored by Crop Production ServicesPhil Needham, President and founder of Needham Ag Technologies
Phil Needham is a native of Great Britain and holds a diploma in agriculture and an honors degree in agricultural technology from Cranfiel University in England. He came to the United States in 1990 as a wheat consultant. He was promoted to Opti-Crop (a division within Miles Enterprises) Man-ager in 1996, where he managed a team of crop consultants and crop management projects from Texas to Manitoba and from Virginia to Washing-ton State. He started Needham Ag Technologies in 2006. The impact of Needham and his former Opti-Crop team’s work can be seen in his home state of Kentucky. USDA data show that average wheat yields more than doubled over a 20 year period from low 30 bushels per acre to the low 70 bushels per acre, with some farmers seeing wheat yields in excess of 100 bushels per acre on fields and farms. Needham considers himself a vehicle of technology, moving and implementing systems and agronomic technologies around the world to ultimately increase farm efficiencies, yields and profits.
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Ralph believes his management has led to three steps of yield advancement with corn (see Figure below). Before he started no-till, his standard rotation was winter wheat-corn-fallow and corn yielded about 60 bu/acre. An initial gain in yield resulted from no-till and residue preservation on the soil surface increas-ing water supply. Ralph noticed a second gain in yield when more crops were included in the wheat-corn-fallow rotation. A third jump in yield occurred when dry pea was inserted in front of corn (thus gaining the synergism benefit).
Ralph also feels that no-till, crop diversity, and synergism enhance each other. In other words, without all three factors, corn yield likely would not be as high. Furthermore, winter wheat yield in this rotation has also doubled compared to yields in the 1990s. Synergism, because of its impact of resource-use-efficiency, may accentuate the benefits of no-till and crop diversity and help producers improve crop productivity without necessarily increasing inputs.
Holzworth: Steps of Yield Advancement
TillageNo-Till
Crop Diversity
Synergism
Crop Synergism Continued
New Registration Process for High Plains No-Till Conference
For the 2013 High Plains No-Till Conference, CCTA is implementing a new on-line registra-tion process. We hope this new process will eliminate confusion and Paypal issues and help sponsors and vendors during the busy trade show months. We are working with a company called Activa to combine all the registrations into one easy to use format that will be inte-grated into our new web site. Map Dynamics will allow us to create a map to show you who is registered as vendors and what booth space they are assigned. We are excited about this new change and appreciate your cooperation while register-ing the first time. We will continue to accept paper registrations for those of you who prefer that method. If you have questions during the registration process, please contact Becky Ravenkamp at [email protected] or by calling 719-740-0715.
Important Dates:
June 1, 2012 Sponsors Registration OpensSponsors can register and reserve a booth space.
June 15, 2012 Vendor Registration OpensAll vendors can register their booth space and purchase extra registrations.
August 1, 2012 Attendee Registration Opens
Dallas Vaughn ~ Burlington719-346-5421
“Helping Farmers Prosper”
No-Till Cover Crops
Cover crops are getting more attention in the High Plains area. With more understanding of the concept more farmers are asking if cover crops have a place on their farm. Keith Berns, of Green Cover Seeds, presented information on cover crops at the 2012 High Plains No-Till Conference. Here are the highlights Keith offers about cover crops.
Cover crops are a crop planted between pe-riods of regular crop production to positively benefit the soil, soil fertility, weed control, and control of diseases.
The soil benefits of cover crops include an increase of organic matter, increase of water infiltration, reduction of soil erosion, soil com-paction breakup, and increase of soil biological activity.
Fertility benefits of cover crops are nitrogen production (legumes), nutrient cycling – reduc-tion of N leaching, nutrient pumping, and no-till manure management.
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No-till Cover Crops Continued
Cover crops have other benefits such as weed suppression – both when growing and later, disease cycles are broken by adding “biological time”, and they provide additional grazing for livestock.
When deciding on a cover crop to use on your farm keep in mind there are three cover crop types. Le-gumes produce nitrogen and have a low C:N ratio. Brassicas are excellent at nutrient cycling, have tre-mendous roots and are frost hardy. Grasses can produce lots of dry matter, are good for grazing and have a high C:N ratio.
In times of excess water there are three common problems. Water runs off the top and causes soil ero-sion, it percolates through the profile and can cause N leaching or it evaporates through tillage or ex-posed soil surface. When cover crops are present the extra water can be utilized by that growing crop and reduce the common problems.
Using cover crop mixtures have several advantages. A variety of plants can take advantage of a variety of field conditions and will encourage and support a wider variety of biological activity in the soil. By using different plants you will have leaf canopy at different heights to better utilize sunlight and to better sup-press weed growth. Several plants in your cover crop provide a more balanced grazing mixture for cattle. It has been observed that a variety of crops seems to use less water than individual crops in monocul-ture.
If you are considering planting cover crops it is important to plan ahead with your chemical program on your wheat. Several wheat herbicides such as Ally, Rave, Amber, etc… have residual effects that can harm cover crop germination and growth.
If you would like more information on cover crops for your farm, feel free to contact Keith Berns at Green Cover Seeds by phone 402-469-6784 or by email [email protected].
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2012 Conference Facts
2012 Spring
The Journal is published by the Colorado Conservation Tillage Association three times
per year.
Issue # 2012.1
• The 2012 High Plains No-Till Conference was attended
by over 420 people.
• Attendees represented seven states and four conti-
nents.
• Forty-three commercial applicator credits and 347 cer-
tified crop advisor credits were applied for.
• Speakers received high marks and 42% of evaluations
returned stated cover crops were the most important
thing they learned at the conference.
The NEW CCTA web site is now launched!
Take a look at:www.HighPlainsNoTill.com
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CCTA to offer One-day Wheat Seminar with Phil Needham
CCTA is proud to announce they will hold a small group seminar Monday Feb. 4, 2013 prior to the 25th Annual High Plains No-Till Conference.
CPS will sponsor the event and proceeds will ben-efit the CCTA scholarship fund. Registrations will be limited to 80 participants. More details will follow in the fall CCTA Journal and will be posted on the web site www.HighPlainsNoTill.com.