The removal of crop residue can address some challenges with reduced-tillage systems, but doing so should be weighed against the potential impact on soil productivity, environmental consequences and food availability, says an Extension agent from Colorado.
Ideal, S.D., no-tillers Nick and Bryan Jorgensen discuss how they’ve built up organic matter levels over the years Jorgensen Land & Cattle, and how that relates to nutrient availability for their crops and their operation’s overall bottom line.
Brian Arnall, soil nutrition specialist at Oklahoma State University Extension, explains how plants benefit from the soil’s cation exchange capacity (CEC).
Kansas State University Extension shares important tips for putting together an effective pre-plant herbicide program to get on top of kochia in corn, sorghum, wheat, soybeans and sunflowers.
A diverse crop-and-livestock no-till operation in Ideal, S.D., is showing the real-world, bottom-line benefits they're realizing by improving soil health.
Alabama growers are sowing the seeds of a new biofuel oil crop by raising carinata, offering row-crop farmers a new revenue opportunity and an alternative to seeding winter wheat, says Alabama Cooperative Extension.
The results are in for the National Sorghum Producers Yield Contest and we’ll see how no-tilled submissions stacked up against conventional and reduced tillage. I think you’ll like what the data show.
A new low-cost graphene-based 'sensor-on-tape' developed by Iowa State University, can be attached to plants and provide new kinds of data to researchers and farmers.
As clubroot disease spreads in western Canadian soil, growers who have yet to see symptoms in their fields have a decision to make on when they should they start growing varieties marketed as resistant to clubroot?
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In this 2025 National No-Tillage Conference session preview, Rockwell City, Iowa, no-tiller James Hepp checks in with a look at his highly modified Case IH 1200 pivot-fold no-till planter.
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