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South Central MN | Conventional till 90%, strip 5% and no-till (depending on definition) 5%. Reason for saying that on no-till is some will put beans on corn ground that way but very few actually no-till more than a few years. I'm probably one of only a few that has even done no-till multiple years here but did some light fall tillage to level out some fields last fall and work in some rye seed (that winterkilled...). The no-till gets easier once structure returns to the soil, takes 5 or so years. Some years the freeze-thaw cycles can make that top 1-2" as loose as full tilled soil, noticed that on one field this spring that hasn't been touched with a tillage tool for several years.
Give it time though and I think the no-till/strip till % will start creeping up as more have success with it and the traditional tillage die-hards retire. Still quite a few younger ones doing full tillage also but may be more likely to switch someday. | |
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Tillage vs No Tillage %
