Learn six proven strategies to successfully transition your farm to no-till and cover crops without overspending on tight ...

Learn about no-till farming and the ecological benefits of this agricultural technique. Daniel Mays of Frith Farm in Scarborough is a leader in no-till practices and lends a hand to help other farmers ...

You may remember when cover crops were referred to as “green manure,” which required being “plowed under.” We now know that ...

TULSA, Okla. - The blade is king in agriculture. Crop producers are surveying a lot of wet, weed-infested fields out there and can't wait to plow deep and heavy this planting season. The positive ...

Farmers and researchers in Reidsville see the positive impacts of no-till agriculture. Tilling soil has long been thought of as a necessary step in agricultural production. A long-term study by ...

Strip tillage and the equipment needed for doing soil-health practices in a crop field are the focus of a free demonstration day near Rose Creek next month for area farmers and agricultural landowners ...

A no-till expert and former Dakota Lakes Research Farm manager shared his studied insights at a southeast Minnesota soil health tour stop. Dwayne Beck, retired research manager at Dakota Lakes ...

For decades, moldboard plows, disks and field cultivators, all horizontal tillage tools, have been the go-tos for fieldwork. That’s changing as fears about climate change come into focus. Sooner or ...

WILLMAR -- For centuries, the plowing and tilling of cropland has been a common farming practice used by farmers around the world to control weeds and prepare the soil for seeding. But in recent years ...

For 60 years, organic farmers have claimed they hold the secret to human sustainability. They claim modern high-tech farming “ruins soils,” and that, as they do, we must bar chemical fertilizers and ...

When fourth-generation farmer Lance Saathoff climbs into the cab of his 510-horsepower John Deere tractor, he's in a control center that's guided by distant satellites to fraction-of-an-inch precision ...