For the fifth consecutive year, Phoenix Rotary Equipment is sponsoring the Conservation Tillage Essay Contest and will award college scholarship grants totaling $2,500 to two students. Phoenix will award a $1,500 scholarship to the first-place winner and $1,000 to the second-place winner.

As the name suggests, a new pre-plant or pre-emergent herbicide named Keystone will help no-till corn growers do a better job of controlling grasses and broadleaf weeds next year.