*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable agriculture and land management* Dear Subscribers, Please see herebelow this Week's No-Till Highlights(31 May 2020). 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), along with other complementary good agricultural production and land management practices. * ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: No-Till Farmer Weekly Digest <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, 31 May 2020 at 13:00 Subject: This Week's No-Till Highlights To: <[log in to unmask]> <https://lessiter.omeclk.com/portal/wts/uemcnc-coceba-zFbznryh-%3B7E%7Cc%7CsoE%5EDawqc> <https://lessiter.omeclk.com/portal/wts/uemcnc-coceba-zFbznr2h-%3B7E%7Cc%7CsoE%5EDawqc> [image: image.gif] <https://lessiter.omeclk.com/portal/wts/uemcnc-coceba-zFbznr2h-%3B7E%7Cc%7CsoE%5EDawqc> WEEKLY DIGEST [image: image.png] <https://lessiter.omeclk.com/portal/wts/uemcnc-coceba-zFbznr-h-%3B7E%7Cf0kPxk-jwPNTc> Weekly Digest May 31, 2020 INDUSTRY NEWS USDA Crop Progress Reports 64% of Corn Emerged <https://lessiter.omeclk.com/portal/wts/uemcnc-coceba-zFbznrDh-%3B7E%7Cf0kPxk-jwPNTc> The latest USDA Crop Progress report showed the rate of both corn planting and corn emergence remain well ahead of last year's progress. 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