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The draw for farmers is the promised reduced cost, and increased yield and thus extra profit over traditional systems. Says this Monsanto blurb "no-till soybeans grown in narrow rows add $16 per acre more to a grower's bottom line than conventional soybeans.... On a 1,000 acre farm, no-till can save as much as 450 hours of time and 3,500 gallons of diesel fuel each year. That's 11, 40-hour weeks in time savings and $4,000 less for diesel at $1.15 per gallon" [http://southeastfarmpress.com/mag/farming_monsanto_guarantee_roundup/]. However the weed control advantage of the no-till vs. conventional system has been disputed [http://web.archive.org/web/20041018161535/http://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/crops/weeds/weedfacts/fba03s00.html].

==What Increased Yield?==