MANKATO, Minn. — Implementing no-till farming and other conservation practices can be great for your farm’s soil health and overall environment. But many have concerns when it comes to the cost of ...
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A focus on sustainability in agriculture was the purpose of a gathering in Wichita this week. No-till on the Plains held its 29th Annual Winter Conference. More than 300 farmers ...
No-till farming started as a way to keep costs down for conventional farmers in danger of losing their land. Now it has become a subculture and a way of life for outsider farmers all over rural ...
Lisa Blazure, soil health coordinator with Stroud Water Research Center, points out night crawler tunnels in the clay soil beneath Penn England Farm’s cornfield topsoil. Night crawlers are essential ...
The soil health movement appears to be gaining momentum among Idaho farmers and conservation districts statewide. Over 10 years after the Natural Resources Conservation Service launched its Soil ...
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 ...
Jumping into a farmer’s tractor is one way Rich Bupp tries to make the transition to regenerative agriculture easier. Farmers employing regenerative agriculture concentrate on improving soil health ...
Dave Brandt's photo on a meme that said, "It Ain't Much But It's Honest Work," made the Fairfield County farmer Internet-famous. Long before Ohio farmer Dave Brandt achieved Internet fame as part of a ...
The Texas High Plains can be unforgiving with lack of rainfall, high temperatures and powerful wind gusts. Barry Evans, a Swisher County, Texas, farmer, has learned to embrace the challenging ...
SHERMAN, S.D. — It’s the time of the year when farmers are already starting to see weeds popping up on their acres. While everyone handles weed control differently on their operations, for no-till ...
"Our experience of being no-till farmers translates into being completely by hand. And I think that that is — it's somewhat unique and not unique historically. It's part of the indigenous wisdom," ...