Proceedings 2004

Indiana Crop Adviser Conference

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Using the Conservation Tillage Transect:
Overcoming No-Till Barriers to Grow Your Customer Base

Barry Fisher Natural Resources Conservation Service
barry.fisher@in.usda.gov
www.agry.purdue.edu/cti/


Biography:  Barry Fisher is serving in a two year assignment as Conservation Tillage Coordinator for the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Indiana. His duties are to promote conservation tillage, identify barriers to the adoption of No-Till and High Residue Farming, and find solutions to those barriers. Barry is located at the Greencastle USDA Service Center. For the past 13 years he has served as District Conservationist for Putnam County. His prior assignment was Conservation Agronomist for West-Central Indiana and has worked for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service since 1981. He has a degree in agronomy from Western Kentucky University.