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Going All In with Regenerative Ag
What David Rourke is doing with regenerative agriculture on his 6,000-acre western Canadian no-till grain operation appears very extensive to many farmers
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Newly Released Second Edition of World's First No-Till History Book Makes Perfect Father's Day Gift
From Maverick to Mainstream: A History of No-Till Farming [2nd Edition] is a beautiful full-color, hardbound book updated with 8 all-new chapters and 20 revised chapters.
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No-Till Farmer Influencers & Innovators
[Podcast] Eileen Kladivko, Earthworm Godmother
For this episode of the No-Till Farmer Influencers & Innovators podcast, brought to you by The Andersons, we’re heading underground. We’re going deep under the soil surface to concentrate on one of the major benefits of no-tilling when it comes to improving soil health. Today’s agenda is worms: Earthworms, red worms, nightcrawlers, and other kinds of worms and the impact the have on no-tilled soils.
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No-Till Farmer Influencers & Innovators
[Podcast] Mr. Lessiter Goes to Washington
For this episode of the No-Till Farmer Influencers & Innovators podcast, brought to you by NewLeaf Symbiotics, we dug through our archives to find the speech Frank Lessiter presented during his 1973 testimonial before the House Agriculture Committee on the important role no-tillage was playing in American agriculture.
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Timeline of the No-Till Revolution
Thousands of small but compounding victories spurred no-till’s growth from 0 to 110 million acres in 60 years.
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No-Till Farmer Influencers & Innovators
[Podcast] The Growth of No-Till and Strip-Till in California
In this episode of the “No-Till Farmer Influencers & Innovators” podcast, brought to you by Montag Manufacturing, No-Till Farmer editor Frank Lessiter talks with Jeff Mitchell, a Cropping Systems Cooperative Extension Specialist at the University of California, Davis, who has been active in leading the evolution of reduced-disturbance and cover crop systems in the Golden State.
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Scenes from the Palouse
Back in 2010, No-Till Farmer editor Frank Lessiter and his son, Mike, traveled to the Palouse area of eastern Washington to visit John Aeschliman, who’s been successfully no-tilling in the region for more than 40 years. Named one of the 25 No-Till Living Legends, no-till has allowed Aeschliman to successfully farm in an area that receives as little as 12 inches annual moisture and has slopes as steep as 60%.
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