No-Till and Input Costs in Alberta: What 20 Years of Data Actually Shows
Alberta grain producers did not adopt no-till because someone made an environmental argument. They adopted it because it worked — on fuel costs, on moisture retention in dry years, on timeliness during compressed seeding windows, and on soil erosion that was visibly costing them topsoil. By 2006, no-till farming acreage in Alberta had grown from roughly 614,000 acres in 1991 to nearly nine million acres — an increase of more than 1,300 percent in 15 years. That trajectory was not driven by policy. It was driven by producers making economic decisions on the ground.
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