It’s been a quiet revolution during the past decade — the sound of farmers not plowing their fields. In a paper on no-till farming, Philip Gersmehl, associate professor of geography at the University ...

Lisa Blazure, soil health coordinator with Stroud Water Research Center, points out night crawler tunnels in the clay soil beneath Penn England Farm’s cornfield topsoil. Night crawlers are essential ...

HASTINGS, Neb. -- Bob Johnson began using the no-till farming method on his central Nebraska farm 10 years ago as an experiment. Today, he says it is a necessity. A drought that has lasted more than ...

IDAHO FALLS (AP) | This will be Gordon Gallup's 30th season of no-till planting on his 3,000-acre Ririe farm. Gallup, who grows wheat, barley and alfalfa, said using no-till methods has helped him ...

Don Morse believes in conservation. “Conservation practices contribute to your farm legacy. Farms that produce good crops and do it in a way that will stand the test of time aren’t after short-term ...

CROOKS, S.D. - South Dakota has recently seen a rise in acres farmed with no-till production methods. In 2015, there was a total of 6,475,903 acres farmed with no-till practices, says Jeff Zimprich, ...

MANKATO, Minn. — Implementing no-till farming and other conservation practices can be great for your farm’s soil health and overall environment. But many have concerns when it comes to the cost of ...

HAMPTON, Iowa — Long-time Practical Farmers of Iowa members Doug Alert and Margaret Smith have looked at organic no-till planting into cover crops, a system pioneered by Jeff Moyer at the Rodale ...