With everyone from USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack to the mainstream media and celebrity chefs touting locally grown food, growing and selling sweet corn to city dwellers who pay $6 or more for a dozen ears may be a profitable niche market for strip-tillers.

Lessiter Publications, Inc., Brookfield, Wis., (publishers of Farm Equipment and Rural Lifestyle Dealer) has announced that Patrick Sharpe has joined the firm in a newly created position of Corporate Director of Audience Development.

There's been heated debate in New South Wales, Aystralia, about whether mining and farming can coexist side by side. But one mine is showing that its no-till farm can produce proftable crops just fine.

While passage last summer of the American Clean Energy and Security Act by the House of Representatives calls for establishing a cap-and-trade program to limit greenhouse gases, it’s expected to have a serious financial impact for farmers. However, the financial penalties will be much lower for continuous no-tillers.

In the fourth year of a study comparing strip-till and conventionally tilled corn inder full-water versus limited water trials, strip-tilled corn yielded more than conventional corn.

Imagine an agricultural production system that functions as a conservation program, keeping land in production while providing potentially high yields, all at a relatively low cost. Say hello to no-till.