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April 6, 2001

Con-till acreage shows increase
Con-till was used on an additional 12.3 million acres in the United States last year, according to a tracking analysis by Doane Marketing Research, Inc.

Con-till was used on more than 65 million acres in 2000, including 31.9 million soybean acres, 23.2 million corn acres, 5.8 million cotton acres and 4.2 million wheat acres. Doane found that U.S. growers have totally eliminated tillage on 24.1 percent of corn acres and 27.3 percent of soybean acreage.

"With higher costs for labor, diesel and irrigation, I'm not surprised that more growers are looking at the economic and agronomic benefits of conservation tillage," says Ross Bushnell, Monsanto director of U.S. Marketing.