Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

a. Tillage plots were established in Waseca, MN focusing on corn hybrid early vigor rating and planting date on performance effects. b. The newly developed Minnesota P Index was used to estimate the environmental risk associated with four tillage systems. c. Tillage study with fall chisel/spring field cultivator, spring field cultivator, strip-till, and no-till strip treatments was installed in 2003. d. Passive runoff collectors were placed in one replication of chisel and strip-till system shortly after planting to collect runoff and sediment from natural events. e. Research on eight Iowa State University Research and Demonstration Farms evaluating different tillage systems and two crop rotations and their effect on soil and water quality parameters and production.

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