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Efficiency Proves Key for Unpredictable Harvest Season

Conservation Ag Operator Fellow & No-Till Living Legend Ray McCormick highlights his innovative cover crop, harvest & high-yield strategies

By Mackane Vogel posted on October 8, 2024 | Posted in Cover Crops, Equipment, Residue Management

As harvest season approaches in Vincennes, Ind., the region brings unique challenges for growers in the area. For Ray McCormick, this is nothing he hasn’t dealt with before.

No-Till Farmer & Farm Equipment Named Finalists for National Writing Awards

April 18, 2024

Lessiter Media’s No-Till Farmer and Farm Equipment editors were recognized by the American Society of Business Press Editors with regional awards in the association’s 2024 Azbee Awards of Excellence and have been announced as national finalists for the program as well.

Ray McCormick Named No-Till Farmer's 2024 Conservation Ag Operator Fellow

Initiative aims to broaden the practical understanding of how growers can find economic and sustainability success through Conservation Ag practices

February 19, 2024

No-Till Farmer has selected Ray McCormick of Vincennes, Ind., as its 2024 Conservation Ag Operator Fellow.

Conservation Ag Operator Fellow Loran Steinlage Receives 2023 Iowa Leopold Conservation Award

Loran Steinlage of West Union has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 Iowa Leopold Conservation Award®.

August 29, 2023

Source: Sand County Foundation

Loran, who owns and operates FLOLO Farms in Fayette County, will be formally presented with the $10,000 Leopold Conservation award this December at The Big Soil Health Event in Cedar Falls.

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Planting Season Challenges No-Tiller’s Planter, Patience

2023 Conservation Ag Operator Fellow persists through planting problems using highly modified no-till planter & trademark flexible thinking

By Michaela Paukner posted on July 13, 2023 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Equipment, Soil Health

The 2023 planting season had No-Till Farmer Conservation Ag Operator Fellow Loran Steinlage considering retiring from the day-to-day of farming.

[Podcast] Conservation Ag Fellowship: Lifelong No-Till Learning

For this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by SOURCE by Sound Agriculture, we caught up with Jim Leverich of Sparta, Wis., to ask him about some of the things he’s learned about no-till since he was first introduced to the practice back in the 1980s.

By Julia Gerlach posted on August 12, 2022 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Equipment, Nutrient Management

Jim Leverich Named Inaugural ‘Conservation Ag Operator’ Fellow by No-Till Farmer

By No-Till Farmer Staff posted on January 18, 2022 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Equipment, Crop Protection, Residue Management, Nutrient Management, Precision Agriculture, Water Management

As No-Till Farmer celebrates the start of its 50th year in 2022, its editors have announced a new initiative — the “Conservation Ag Operator Fellowship” — to broaden farmers’ understanding about how to realize economic and sustainability success through no-till and conservation ag.

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