There is significant discussion over soil management and water quality. Concerns regarding erosion, loss of top soil and water retention are key elements to the discussion. And water quality concerns ...

Annual agricultural event features keynote speaker Monte Bottens and sessions on soil health, precision farming and ...

Launched at Commodity Classic, strip-tillage implement blends conservation with productivity. Case IH’s new Nutri-Tiller 1000 Series strip-tillage implement aims to deliver the best of both worlds for ...

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 ...

The reality of changing soil conditions and varying crop needs often requires more middle ground than most tillage systems are designed to deliver.

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 ...

On a hilltop field in Rush County, Kevin Wiltse stabbed his spade into plant residue-encrusted earth and turned over a shovelful of dark soil. He knelt, scooped up a fistful of moist, porous ...

After a fall harvest and before the spring planting season, soil is typically cultivated so it can become more fertile and welcoming for plant growth. All farmers practice at least one type of tillage ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...