In this 2025 National No-Tillage Conference session preview, hear from Thomas Dykstra, who’s back on the program by popular demand! The Gainesville, Fla.-based entomologist will be leading 2 sessions, “Exploring Electrical Conductivity in the Soil,” and “Using Insects as Indicators for Plant Health.”

We’ve got an exclusive interview with Ricky Brown, who developed the first-ever commercial strip-till rig with Leo and Jerril Hardin in Alabama. Our Mike Lessiter catches up with Brown for a look back at the groundbreaking creation.

No-Till Innovator Adam Daugherty checks in from Coffee County, Tenn., with a preview of the 2025 National No-Tillage Conference (NNTC). The former NNTC Presenter of the Year, farmer and NRCS district conservation official will be leading a classroom presentation, “Don’t Start Planting Cover Crops Until…”.

Longtime western Oklahoma no-tiller Jimmy Smith and his son Spencer keep their sandy soils in place by interseeding cereal rye into standing cotton. They’re using a Dalton Ag Mobility 600 fertilizer applicator to get the job done.

How will those tough market prices affect your nutrient management plans for 2025? Univ. of Illinois soil scientist Andrew Margenot says you might want to think about dialing back P and K rates if possible.

Our harvest season odyssey continues in Amboy, Ill., where I spent the day with Dave Thompson, a farmer turned precision specialist for Case IH dealer Johnson Tractor.

On this edition of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by CultivAce, we head to Amboy, Ill., where Dave Thompson shares his top takeaways from harvest season. Univ. of Illinois soil scientist Andrew Margenot discusses why some no-tillers might want to dial back P and K rates next growing season.

For this 2025 National No-Tillage Conference preview, Rockwell City, Iowa, no-tiller James Hepp checks in with a look at his highly modified Case IH 1200 pivot-fold no-till planter.

This one comes to us from Carl Clark on TikTok. The central Illinoisan planted soybeans into 5-foot-tall ryegrass, before terminating it with Roundup. No residuals. No post-emergence applications. He says the beans have been hard to cut and there’s some waterhemp scattered about. He thought he messed up, but let’s see what the yield monitor says.

As an agronomist turned custom strip-tiller, Donnellson, Iowa, farmer Mark Dobson is on the road quite a bit and visits a lot of farms in different regions. The biggest takeaway from his 2024 travels as harvest season reaches a crescendo?