1998 MAX Report

The 1998 MAX Report

OVERVIEW
About MAX	2a
How You Can Use the Computer Software Provided by MAX	2b
Strip-Till - A practical solution for conservation tillage corn	3
CONTACTS
State MAX Coordinators and Contacts	4
INDIANA - Lower White & Wabash River Watershed
Combining infrared imagery, yield monitoring and no-till	6
INDIANA - Center of Excellence
You soon learn what's paying off and what isn't paying off with the MAX program	10
Centers of Excellence focus on the many advantages of conservation tillage	11
OHIO - Wood SWCD Watershed
Farmers working together on test plots	12
INDIANA - Upper Eel River Watershed
Planting soybeans into rye cover crop works	13
Reason for MAX: "You can't tell where you're going unless you know where you've been	14
IOWA - Three Lakes WQ Project
Knifing in hog manure saves on fertilizer costs	16
IOWA - Bigalk Creek Watershed
Neighbors cooperate in transforming stream	17
All benefit from FFA chapter operating farmer-owned experimental farm	18
IOWA - Spring Branch Creek Watershed
Did he ever get a surprise when he calibrated his manure spreader	19
OHIO - Mad River Watershed
Patience - plus a change in tactics - determines no-till success	20
OHIO - Wood SWCD Watershed
Strip-till unit is possible solution to erosion's effects	21
MISSOURI - Smithville Lake Watershed
"The MAX program is the records system I've always wanted	22
ILLINOIS - Lake Vermilion Watershed
Coalition aims to prevent contamination problems before they develop	23
KANSAS - Cheney Reservoir Watershed
MAX prompts his shift to more soybeans	26
KANSAS - Cheney Lake Watershed
MAX prompting pays off in a more intensive rotation and a profitable new crop	28
KANSAS - Hillsdale Lake Watershed
Using a nutrient management system that includes field injection of hog manure	30
MINNESOTA - Blue Earth River Watershed
No-till hog manure injector applicator saves him $60 to $80 an acre annually	31
IOWA - Martelle, Iowa
Innovative Crop Production Process Pays	32
AG-21 Environmentally Driven Technology	34
MINNESOTA - St. James, Minnesota
Technology Helps Improve Profits	36
MAX Facts	38
Low Prices and Marketing Alternatives	39

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