*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable agriculture and land management* Dear Subscribers, Please see herebelow the No-Till Farmer Weekly Digest. for 6 September. Apologies for any cross-posting. *Amir Kassam * *Moderator* *Global CA-CoP* e-mail: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture *Conservation Agriculture is an ecosystem approach to regenerative sustainable agriculture and land management based on the practical application of context-specific and locally adapted three interlinked principles of: (i) Continuous no or minimum mechanical soil disturbance (no-till seeding/planting and weeding, and minimum soil disturbance with all other farm operations including harvesting); (ii) permanent maintenance of soil mulch cover (crop biomass, stubble and cover crops); and (iii) diversification of cropping system (economically, environmentally and socially adapted rotations and/or sequences and/or associations involving annuals and/or perennials, including legumes and cover crops). These practices complemented with other good agricultural production and land management practices. * ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: No-Till Farmer Weekly Digest <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2020 at 13:00 Subject: This Week's No-Till Highlights To: <[log in to unmask]> <https://lessiter.omeclk.com/portal/wts/uemcnc-cswebaA-Qb-%7Cx6%7CzT8A2c%7CsoE%5EDa0fd> <https://lessiter.omeclk.com/portal/wts/uemcnc-cswebaA-Qb-%7Cx-%7CzT8A2c%7CsoE%5EDa0fd> WEEKLY DIGEST [image: No-Till Farmer] <https://lessiter.omeclk.com/portal/wts/uemcnc-cswebaA-Qb-%7Cye%7CzT8A2f0kPxk-jwPNTc> Weekly Digest September 6, 2020 Crop Protection Don't Let Downed Corn Get You Down <https://lessiter.omeclk.com/portal/wts/uemcnc-cswebaA-Qb-%7Cy%7C%7CzT8A2f0kPxk-jwPNTc> When stormy weather hits, farmers find themselves at the mercy of Mother Nature. But flattened crops don't have to be a total disaster. Seeding & Planting 4 Things to Consider When Buying Seed for Fall Planting <https://lessiter.omeclk.com/portal/wts/uemcnc-cswebaA-Qb-%7Cym%7CzT8A2f0kPxk-jwPNTc> As we approach the fall cover crop planting season, the industry is starting to see shortages of a few different crops like radishes, hairy vetch and annual clovers due to the record amount of acreage that was planted last year as part of USDA’s prevent plant program. Read more in this article from Go Seed. ------------------------------ Did someone else forward this email to you? 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Hot Content Top No-Till Stories from August 2020 <https://lessiter.omeclk.com/portal/wts/uemcnc-cswebaA-Qb-%7Cy2%7CzT8A2f0kPxk-jwPNTc> In case you missed them, here are the items that have garnered the most interest from farmers in the month of August. ------------------------------ *Check out the latest innovations from leading industry suppliers!* LEARN MORE <https://lessiter.omeclk.com/portal/wts/uemcnc-cswebaA-Qb-%7Cy6%7CzT8A2f0kPxk-jwPNTc> ------------------------------ <https://lessiter.omeclk.com/portal/wts/uemcnc-cswebaA-Qb-%7Cy-%7CzT8A2c%7CsoE%5EDa0fd> *Feature* Big Roots from Ryegrass Build ‘Highways’ in the Soil <https://lessiter.omeclk.com/portal/wts/uemcnc-cswebaA-Qb-%7CyD%7CzT8A2f0kPxk-jwPNTc> We've got two different soils on our farm in Springerton, Ill.: What we call hill ground, and then bottom ground. The hill ground has got plenty of problems, and the bottom ground — if you don’t have too many water problems — will do a real good job of growing crops. 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