One of the fields the researchers used in the no-till farming study at Michigan State University's Kellog Biological Station. Results from a nearly 30-year ongoingstudy published by researchers ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Improved water quality and reduced soil erosion are two benefits farmers will gain if they use no-till practices this spring. No-till involves planting into last year's crop ...

No-till farming, considered to be a more environmentally friendly farming practice that reduces soil disturbance when compared with conventional practices, appears to have an important benefit besides ...

Several reduced tillage practices include vertical-till, strip-till, zone-till, and no-till. Reducing tillage means exactly what you think — making fewer passes through the field and/or decreasing the ...

The Department of Agriculture’s campaign to stop farmers from digging up the soil is running into an obstacle: the chemicals the agency promotes to kill weeds. The Department of Agriculture’s campaign ...

A no-till expert and former Dakota Lakes Research Farm manager shared his studied insights at a southeast Minnesota soil health tour stop. Dwayne Beck, retired research manager at Dakota Lakes ...

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 ...

Garth Mulkey's no-till wheat crop near Monmouth, Ore. in this July 2018 file photo. A report by the United Nations released on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019 says that human-caused climate change is ...

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 ...

William “Bill” Richards, a soil conservation pioneer who served as chief of USDA’s Soil Conservation Service (now Natural Resources Conservation Service) from 1990-1993 under President George H.W.

WILLMAR -- For centuries, the plowing and tilling of cropland has been a common farming practice used by farmers around the world to control weeds and prepare the soil for seeding. But in recent years ...

DECORAH, Iowa — Paul Hunter agreed to host an Iowa Learning Farm field day because he thought it might encourage others to consider no-till farming. "No-till is one of those things that unless you see ...