From a water gun fight in the hallway to a friendly stranger saying, “Hey, you’re the no-till guy!” you never know what you’re going to see at the country’s largest indoor farm trade show.

The No-Till Conference presented Monte Bottens with the Most Outstanding Speaker Award for his 2024 presentation, “Making Grazing So Easy a Corn Grower Can Do It.” During his acceptance talk, Bottens highlighted some of the on-farm trials he’s got going on this year in Cambridge, Ill.

Some lively conversation is going on in the No-Till Farmer Email Discussion Group this week. We asked — What have you done to reduce glyphosate dependence on your farm, and how would you keep no-tilling if glyphosate was banned?

2025 Most Valuable Dealer Ag Technology Solutions Group hosted a clinic at CEO Skip Klinefelter’s farm in Nokomis, Ill. Precision Planting region manager Josh Stoller delivered a presentation about new planter and sprayer technologies that are giving him a winning-edge in his no-till and strip-till operation.

How about a little road trip to get us started? Leopold Conservation Award recipients from across the U.S. shared some of the unique things they’re doing on their farms.

On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Sound Agriculture, 4 Leopold Conservation Award recipients — Russell Hedrick, Richard Lyons, Colleen Kershaw and Wendy Mariko Johnson highlight some of the unique conservation practices on their farms.

17% of no-tillers used drones in 2023 according to the 2024 No-Till Farmer Benchmark Report. As drone expert Jason Sorensen tells us, there’s several reasons why drones are becoming increasingly popular in the precision ag world.

17% of no-tillers used drones in 2023 according to the 2024 No-Till Farmer Benchmark Report. As drone expert Jason Sorensen tells us, there’s several reasons why drones are becoming increasingly popular in the precision ag world.

Congratulations to Tuscola County, Mich., farmer Tom Hess who recently celebrated his 40-year no-till anniversary. Hess started no-tilling in 1984 to solve his erosion problems and never looked back. His big focus now is feeding the livestock in the ground because that soil life does all his tillage, he says. I paid a visit to Tom’s farm in early May for a look at one of his long-term no-till fields.

Friend of the program, Tony Peirick has been planting soybeans and corn green into cereal rye for about a decade now on his Watertown, Wis., farm. Tony has some words advice for those who are nervous about using cover crops.