For early no-tillers or those looking to start the practice, optimizing soil health and function is the ultimate endgame, says former NRCS soil scientist and nationally renowned soil health expert and agricultural consultant Ray Archuleta. Getting Started with No-Till Farming is supported by Calmer Corn Heads.

After pioneering no-till practices on his Circleville, Ohio farm – becoming one of the first to do it on an entire farm operation – Richards was tapped to serve as chief of the NRCS, then known as the Soil Conservation Service.

The U.S Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Nevada is offering financial and technical assistance to help agricultural producers apply conservation practices through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program Classic (EQIP Classic) and Inflation Reduction Act (EQIP IRA), and the Agricultural Management Assistance Program (AMA). More than $16 million is available to producers through EQIP and AMA.

Fall-seeded cereal rye can be established successfully following the application of most herbicides used in corn production, but success is influenced by herbicide rate and environmental conditions that follow the herbicide application.

After a four-inch rain in May 2008, Ray Gaesser began to ponder other ways to protect his soil and crop residue.

Soil compaction is the increase in bulk density and decrease in soil porosity caused by heavy loads when too wet. It decreases water infiltration, increases runoff and restricts root growth.

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.