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Zachary Michael Jack is a seventh-generation rural Iowan and great-grandson of soil conservation writer Walter Thomas Jack. He is an award-winning author of many books on agriculture, conservation and the environment, and editor of the 60th anniversary edition of Walter Thomas Jack’s The Furrow and Us. His most recent books on the region are The Haunt of Home: A Journey Through America’s Heartland and Country Views: Essential Agrarian Commentaries. He is a professor of English at North Central College in Naperville, Ill., and a fourth-generation Iowa farmer’s son.
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No-Till Innovator Marion Calmer checks in from his Alpha, Ill., farm with a preview of his 2025 National No-Tillage Conference (NNTC) presentation. The 4-time NNTC presenter of the year will go through his 40-year journey of replicated studies on nitrogen rates.