ROBERT STEVENSON

Oak Lake, Manitoba

"In 1986, the third year we were in zero till, it was a wet spring and a wet summer. We had made a lot of mistakes - especially not spreading straw and chaff properly, not controlling the weeds properly, not placing the seed in the ground properly. Nearly 25% of our crop was less than it should have been.

"Spring of '85, when the big windstorm of June 5 hit, our zero till fields stayed put and we had to reseed our conventionally seeded fields. Also, it's important to know that good soil moisture is something we can count on every spring. "