Mark Watson

Nebraska Panhandle

No Till Education Coordinator

(308) 760-5259

mwatsonntec@charter.net

No-till News and Information

Since September 2007 the North Platte NRD has been working cooperatively with Panhandle No-till Education Coordinator Mark Watson of Alliance to help promote the concept and benefits of no tillage farming. Mark has been writing a weekly column that appears in the Scottsbluff Star-Herald's Farm & Ranch section each Sunday as well as other regional newspapers. See all of Mark's columns through August, 2011 below. No Till Notes from Sept. 2011 onward are available HERE "No-till Notes"  weekly columns written by Mark Watson 2011 1/2 First in a Series 1/2 Winter workshops 1/9 Regional Opportunities 1/16 Snirt's Back 1/23 Wheat Research 1/30 Notill Listserve 2/06 Workshops 2/13 Crop diversity 2/13 Field Peas workshop 2/27 Herbicide 3/06 Crop rotations 3/13 Crop rotations II 3/20 Crop rotations III 3/27 Crop rotations IV 4/03 Field Peas & Cattle 4/10 Chloride 4/17 Perception 4/24 Spring Planting 5/01 Time Well Spent 5/04 Value of Water 5/15 A Good Start 5/29 Residue 6/05 Residue II 6/12 Field Days 6/19 Northern PH Field Day 6/26 Fertilizer Placement 7/03 Thank You 7/10 Long Term Research 7/17 Soil Degradation 7/24 Soil Degradation II 7/31 33% or Less (reprint) 8/07 Hailed Peas 8/14 Irrigation Management 8/21 PNTP Field Days 8/28 Tear Down the Walls 9/04 Tear Down the Walls II SEE NEW LINK TO COLUMNS... 2010 1/10 Planning for New Year 1/17 Planning Irrigation Mgmt 1/24 UNW Meeting 2/08 Cover Your Acres 2/14 No Till On the Plains 2/21 Snirt 2/28 10-20-30 3/07 More Than Tillage 3/14 More Than Tillage II 3/21 More Than Tillage III 3/28 More Than Tillage IV 4/11 Cover Crops 4/18 Cover Crops II 4/25 Cover Crops III 5/02 Cover Crops IV 5/09 Cover Crops V 5/16 Cover Crops VI 5/23 Bus Tours 5/30 Summer Fallow I 6/06 Summer Fallow II 6/13 Summer Fallow III 6/27 Opportunity 7/04 Southern Tour 7/11 Wind & Water 7/18 After the Hail 7/25 Irrigation 8/01 Irrigation II 8/08 Centibar readings 8/15 Centibars 8/22 Grain Maturity 8/29 Dry Edible Bean Day 9/05 Northern Field Day 9/12 Irrigation Mgmt 9/19 Irrigation Mgmt II 9/26 Irrigation Mgmt III 10/10 It's Dry 10/17 Legumes 10/24 Legumes Field Peas 10/31 Legumes Dry Beans 11/07 Legumes Dry Bean Harvest 11/21 Legumes Research 11/28 Continuing Education 12/05 What Lies Ahead 12/12 What Lies Ahead II 12/19 What Lies Ahead III 12/26 Winter workshops   2009 1/04 No Till Edible Beans Harvesting 1/11 No Till Corn 1/18 No Till Corn II 1/25 No Till Corn III 2/01 No Till Corn IV 2/15 Forages I 2/22 Forages II 3/01 Forages III 3/08 Forages IV 3/15 Wind Erosion 3/15 Diversity I 3/22 Diversity II 3/29 Diversity III 4/05 Diversity IV 4/12 Soil Food Web 4/19 Soil Food Web II 4/26 Soil Food Web III 5/03 Soil Food Web IV 5/10 Food for the Soil Web 5/17 Ducks 5/24 No Till Field Day 5/31 Spring Planting 6/07 May Forgot Us 6/14 Field Day 6/21 Erosion 6/28 Soil Structure 7/05 Weed Competition 7/12 33.3% or Less 7/19 Soil Moisture 7/26 Challenges 8/02 Miscellaneous 8/09 Carbon 8/16 Soil, Plants and Carbon 8/23 Soil, Plants and Carbon II 8/30 Soil, Plants and Carbon III 9/13 Evapo-transpiration 9/06 Agriculture's Role 9/13 Evapo-transpiration 9/20 Last Irrigation 9/27 Field Peas 10/04 Field Peas II 10/11 Field Peas III 10/25 Conservation 11/01 Conservation II 11/08 Conservation III 11/15 Soil Conservation 11/22 Water 11/29 Water II 12/06 Value of Water 12/13 Water by the Numbers 12/20 Water by the Numbers II 12/27 Tis the Season Conferences 2008 1/6   Learning Opportunities 1/13 Upcoming Meetings 1/20 Residue Equipment 1/27 Weed Control I 2/03 Weed Control II 2/10 Weed Control III 2/17 Weed Control IV 2/24 Crop Rotations & Weeds 3/02 Planning Crop Rotations 3/09 Planning Crop Rotations II 3/16 Cover Crops 3/23 Understanding Soil I 3/30 Understanding Soil II 4/06 Understanding Soil III 4/13 Understanding Soil IV 4/20 Irrigation Efficiency 4/27 It's All About Water (Wilke) 5/04 What Is Soil Quality (Buttle) 5/11 Sustainability Through Soil Quality 5/18 Four Phases of No Till (Buttle) 5/25 Drought Part I 6/01 Drought Part II 6/08 Memorial Day Rains 6/15 Six Inches Part I 6/22 Six Inches Part II 6/29 Six Inches Part III 7/06 Six Inches Part IV 7/13 Six Inches Part V 7/20 Six Inches Part VI 7/27 Six Inches Part VII 8/03 Six Inches Part VII 8/17 Improving Soil Quality 8/24 Rain! 9/14 Surprising 9/28 New No Till 10/05 What a Difference 10/12 What If Allocations Were Cut? 10/19 Sugar Beets I 10/26 Sugar Beets II 11/2   Forages 11/9   What Do You Think? 11/16 Winter Conference in Gering 11/23 Chem Fallow 11/30 What Is No Till? 12/07 No Till Edible Beans 12/14 No Till Edible Beans Planting 12/21 No Till Edible Beans Herbicides 2007 10/25 Introduction 110/4 Value of Residue 11/11 Gering Conference Speakers 11/18 No Till and Water 11/25 Gering Conference Held 12/02 Dryland Farming 12/09 Benefits of Residue 12/16 Residue Management 1 12/23 Residue Management 2