Allowing soils to regenerate is the key to bottom-line success for producers, and the No-till on the Plains Winter Conference is the place to learn more.

John Heermann has gained the trust of his landlords to restore soil health on their fields in northeastern Colorado with the use of continuous no-till and diverse cropping rotations.

Earlier this month, about 170 people attended the Farming Evolution no-till conference in Holyoke, Colo., where attendees covered a number of topics related to no-till practices, cover cropping and soil health principles.

At the Southern Soil Health Conference in Ardmore, Okla., Jon Heerman, a no-tiller from Haxtun, Colo., talks about how he’s applying pelletized compost with his John Deere air seeder to increase soil biological diversity on his farm. Heerman, who no-tills wheat, rye, field peas, oats, milo and sunflowers, is even exploring ways to use a self-propelled sprayer to apply the compost pellets.

When it comes to rejuvenating worn fields and pastures in the southern Plains, there were plenty of ideas shared among the nearly 200 people attending the Southern Soil Health Conference this week in Ardmore, Okla.