With the ongoing debate of tillage versus soil conservation methods, farmers have had to weigh whether they’d rather achieve a higher yield or practice good land management. However, according to a ...

That’s the Payment-in-Kind (PIK) program the U.S. Department of Agriculture rolled out in 1983 to idle millions of acres ...

BRECKENRIDGE, Minn. — “I like to try new things,” Vance Johnson says. This summer, sugarbeet growers and others will get a chance for an up-close look at some of his experiments with a test plot just ...

Editor's note: Jeff Beach will be checking up with Vance Johnson throughout the growing season as part of our Follow a Farmer series. BRECKENRIDGE, Minn. — If it were a race, Vance Johnson says he ...

Record no-till corn yields (616 bushel/acre, Dave Hula, Virginia) have been achieved by understanding what it takes to make no-till corn succeed. Nationally, no-till corn acres are less than 10% ...

Liz Maynard, presented at Fruit & Vegetable Growers Association of Delaware, Harrington, DE, Jan 10, 2024 and Indiana Horticulture Conference, Danville, IN, Jan. 22, 2024. Slide set download pdf ...

A field day promoting conservation farming techniques is being held Friday by the Nevada FFA in collaboration with Heartland Cooperative, Van Wall Equipment, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and the ...

As the adoption of no-till practices has spread widely across parts of the U.S. over the past few decades, the approach has been touted as an important means of storing carbon in soil—and a key ...