Ag Facts

Illinois producers have made significant changes in reducing their tillage including:

• More Illinois cropland is being farmed using no-till than any other tillage system.
• No-till is being used on over 33 percent of Illinois cropland.
• The majority of Illinois soybeans are now being planted to no-till with more than 5 million acres no-tilled.
• No-till CORN acres are again on the increase -- 17 percent no-tilled.
• 85.8 percent of Illinois cropland is now meeting Tolerable Soil Losses.
• Only 14.2 percent of Illinois acres are exceeding the Tolerable loss.
• Only four percent of the acres are exceeding the soil loss levels by more than a 2T level(10 tons per acre per year).