Success StoryNo-Till Conference Argentina



No-Till Conference Argentina

Author: Chad Lee

Planning Unit: Plant and Soil Sciences

Major Program: Grains

Outcome: Long-Term Outcome

Decades ago, our predecessors in Pant and Soil Sciences (Agronomy at that time) visited Argentina and taught farmers there how to raise crops in no-tillage conditions. Today, they have an Argentinian No-Tillage Farmers Association (Aapresid), which hosts a conference every year and has thousands of attendees. I was invited to speak at the 2020 Aapresid Congress. We had to do the conference virtually instead of in-person (like many other meetings this year). My presentation was on no-tillage and cover crops. So, this talk was the result of long-term efforts from the University of Kentucky regarding no-tillage, in a country with about 44 million acres of soybeans and about 90% in no-tillage fields. Perhaps this effort is the start of a new project with cover crops. 






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