Nathan Brause thinks he should have listened to his forebears. The Sulphur Springs, Ohio, no-tiller inherited a farm that featured a three-crop rotation of corn, soybeans and wheat that had been in no-till when his grandpa farmed the land.

For Nathan Brause of Sulphur Springs, Ohio, witnessing the soil degradation on his farm over the past 4 decades put him on a mission to keep more of it in place.