Adding new practices to your cropping system can require adaptations that aren’t always intuitive. Barry Fisher of Fisher Soil Health shares insight into how taking logical steps that have been proven by top farmers and researchers across the country can reduce risk and speed the improvement of soil functions.

It’s been almost 6 decades since Harry Young Jr. no-tilled the first commercial plot of corn in Herndon, Ky., and no-till has certainly come a long way since, as the bold experiment set off an agricultural evolution across the U.S. and globally. But farmers must still log a profit as they do right by soil health to stay in business.

Dan Gillespie was also known as "Dan The Tree Man" in Battle Creek, after 30 years of classroom planting demonstrations with fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade students in local schools.