{"id":77167,"date":"2016-06-14T07:25:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T12:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=77167"},"modified":"2016-06-14T07:25:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T12:25:55","slug":"swcd-does-conservation-tillage-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/06\/14\/swcd-does-conservation-tillage-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"SWCD does conservation tillage survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A conservation tillage transect was recently completed for Van Wert County through the Van Wert Soil &amp; Water Conservation District. A transect survey consists of driving a prescribed route through the county and recording crops and tillage at each half-mile interval. Corn, soybeans, small grain and forages are the crops recorded.<\/p>\n<p>Tillage systems are also recorded for corn and soybeans. The tillage systems noted are: no-till, ridge till and mulch till, with 0-15 percent residue cover and 15-30 percent residue cover.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, the survey indicated that 35 percent of corn and 48 percent of soybeans planted in 2016 were planted using a conservation tillage system. A conservation tillage system is one that leaves 30 percent residue cover on the soil surface after planting. This includes both no-till and mulch till systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information A conservation tillage transect was recently completed for Van Wert County through the Van Wert Soil &amp; Water Conservation District. A transect survey consists of driving a prescribed route through the county and recording crops and tillage at each half-mile interval. Corn, soybeans, small grain and forages are the crops recorded. Tillage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 07:01:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}