When a pesticide is registered under FIFRA, the Federal “action” must also be in compliance with the ESA. Failure of the USEPA to consult with, and/or failure of the Services to assess, results in non-compliance under Section 7 of the ESA and creates opportunities for litigious intervention, which essentially brings the entire process to a standstill.

Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, a historic amount of funding is available to America’s farmers and ranchers for climate-smart practices like no-till.

"Balancing savings and effective management of troublesome weed species will be a major challenge with these novel precision application systems," says Rodrigo Werle, associate professor and extension cropping systems weed scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Readings from two Wisconsin weather stations during the solar eclipse April 8 show the decline in photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), the portion of the light spectrum that plants use for photosynthesis.

While this projection covers the general farm population, machinery purchases by no-tillers should be a bright spot for dealers in 2024

Jerry Grigar, a retired NRCS staffer who now farms a small acreage north of Lansing, Mich., shares his advice for planting cereal rye cover crops during drought years.

Among 6,882 entries in the 2023 National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) NCGA annual yield contest from 3,824 growers in 46 states, a father-and-son team from Charles City, Va., captured the top two rankings with yields of 590 and 623 bushels per acre.

In March, I traveled to Ada, Ohio, to attend the Conservation Tillage & Technology Conference, an event put on by No-Till Legend Randall Reeder and the Ohio No-Till Council.