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 ...

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 ...

A creek flows through Boone County on its way to the Missouri River. Farmer Matt Lambert says management practices designed to prevent runoff have helped protect the investment of input costs, while ...

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 ...

One of the fields the researchers used in the no-till farming study at Michigan State University's Kellog Biological Station. Results from a nearly 30-year ongoingstudy published by researchers ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Increase no-till farming practices across the planet or face serious climate, soil quality and food production problems in the next 20 to 50 years. That warning from scientists ...

No-till farming, considered to be a more environmentally friendly farming practice that reduces soil disturbance when compared with conventional practices, appears to have an important benefit besides ...

Regenerative farming is gaining momentum as farmers, companies and consumers look for healthier soil, better nutrition and ...

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 ...

To till or not to till? That is the question. Looking over fields prior to planting, a Shakespeare-in-overalls might also wonder: “Whether ‘tis nobler to till and suffer the slings and arrows of soil ...

William “Bill” Richards, a soil conservation pioneer who served as chief of USDA’s Soil Conservation Service (now Natural Resources Conservation Service) from 1990-1993 under President George H.W.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A dirt storm blew across I-55 in central ...