Dear Friends, We are happy to announce that the original NZ soil aerator technology which Peter Banin faithfully executed back in the 70's has made it to East Africa ; Ethiopia to be exact. The machine

which Dan Coffin, Fort Wayne, Indiana bought several years ago is headed into a container as a part of Project Mercy's involvement in the central highlands of Ethiopia, see their website at http://www.projectmercy.org/. They have a project at around 9000 feet of elevation in the central highlands involving livestock and small grain production on about 350 acres. The plans are to pump water to a reservoir using wind energy to irrigate during the annual drought period. The soil aerator will be used in renovating pastures, and tilling in preparation for small grains. The machine is the result of a joint effort by Dan Coffin, Dr. Roy Coolman and his wife Nancy, Kelley Manufacturing (makers of the Phillips Rotary Harrow, ,in Tipton, Georgia), Wayne Reinhart of Tri-Hard Farms in Bluffton, Indiana  and Jim Martindale, North American Ag-Gro Consulting. We will do our best to keep everyone informed of progress with the machine in the months and years ahead.

There is an older story newly published under case studies.

It's called,"Preparing for Planting Corn in alfalfa living mulch" under the case studies menu, or click here.

Welcome to Genesis Tillage.org the home of North American AG-GRO Consulting. 
We're concerned about your soil . . .
. . . and your Soul.

We believe, as did Peter Bannan inventor of the Groundhog®, that tillage was to be performed by making a hole in the ground and fracturing the soil. The soil was not to be turned, plowed or disked but tilled.
GenesisTillage.org began: to get back to the original vision and design of tillage and aeration that God revealed to Peter Bannan. That design used an aerator to make holes in the ground, fracture the soil and give life back to the soil instead of robbing the life out of it.
The Psalmist said, "The earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein." (Ps 24:1) Let us care for the ground in the same manner as God would have us do.

God Bless

Jim Martindale &

The folks at North American AG-GRO