Conservationists of the Year are Judge Woodrow and Chuck Hatcher require farmers renting their land to utilize no-till practices.

Jim Kinsella, who helped pioneer no-till and strip-till farming systems in the U.S., is receiving an environmental award from the Illinois Corn Growers Association.

dairy farm family with a long history of soil conservation has been chosen to receive the Leopold Conservation Award from Sand County Foundation and the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation.

The latest bi-annual tillage transect results, compiled by the Indiana State Department of Agriculture and the Natural Resources Conservation Service for 2011, show that 23% of the Indiana's corn crop and 59% of soybean acreage were no-tilled.

Retail anhydrous ammonia prices again are on the rise. The October 13, 2011 Illinois Production Cost Report by the Agricultural Marketing Service placed the average Illinois price of anhydrous ammonia at $853 per ton, up $52 per ton from the July 7th price of $801 per ton.

50-40-20. Those three numbers have great significance to the No-Till Farmer family.

Producers using a no-till wheat/row crop/fallow rotation may find that row crop yields in such a rotation are higher in years with relatively normal weather when the wheat stubble height is taller