Syngenta and No-Till Farmer recognized the 16th class of No-Till Innovator Award winners at a banquet held during the milestone 20th Annual National No-Tillage Conference in St. Louis, Jan. 11-14, 2012.

The 20th annual National No-Tillage Conference will be a special event, and you can keep track of what's happening by following our posts on both Facebook and Twitter.

A clearer picture of corn's biochemical responses to insect and fungal attacks is emerging, thanks to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) studies in Gainesville, Fla.

Two California farm groups are merging to create the Conservation Agriculture Systems Institute and will launch the effort with an informational meeting later this month.

$50 million will spent over three years in conservation assistance to farmers and ranchers in priority areas along seven major rivers in five states that drain into the Gulf.

Trials begin this spring for drought-tolerant corn varieties from Monsanto that were approved recently by the USDA, although some experts are skeptical of the technology's potential benefits.

With both extremely wet and dry conditions happening in the same growing season, it is not a stretch to call 2011 a strange year in Manitoba, but it has helped prove the effectiveness of perennial and annual forage seed blends known as "polycrops", or cover crops, in dealing with extremes of weather.

A new technology, called the RootChip, has allowed a research team to study roots of eight individual seedlings at the same time, and to alter their growth environment simultaneously or independently with precision.

University of California scientists have for the first time achieved the same yields in cotton and tomato research plots managed under conservation tillage strategies as they did on adjacent plots using conventional tillage practices.

The USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service says the ranking period cut-off date for the Conservation Stewardship Program is January 13, 2012.