Rising equipment prices are no fun for farmers. Combine that with wait lists of sometimes over a year, and finding the right farm equipment to help implement conservation practices on the farm can be ...

Last month’s Groundswell no-till show in Hertfordshire gave all the major drill makers a chance to show what their machines can do in a standing cover crop of vetch, oats, clover and radish. A 6m ...

One of the most important parts of any conservation or farming operation is establishing goals to work toward. It is easy to do the same thing year after year because of limited time or finances. What ...

Committing to no-till seeding across 1215ha (3000 acres) of combinable crops calls for a lot of faith in the technique – and finding the right drill for the job. Peter Hill reports What is the ideal ...

TORIN HALSEY/TIMES RECORD NEWS Trevor Lalk drives a tractor with a no-till planter to plant corn seed in a field near Punkin Center. Lalk Brothers Farms received an award for their soil conservation ...

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 ...

According to geologist David Montgomery, author of Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, the world loses roughly 23 billion tons of good soil each year. At this rate, it will all be gone within 150 ...

No-till means reduced soil disturbance as an alternative to traditional cultivation by ploughing or discing, in which the soil is broken and then further cultivated to prepare a seedbed for planting ...

Figure 1: Comparison of yield in no-till versus conventional tillage systems in relation to the other two principles of conservation agriculture. Figure 2: Comparison of rainfed crop yield in no-till ...

The age-old practice of turning the soil before planting a new crop is a leading cause of farmland degradation. Many farmers are thus looking to make plowing a thing of the past John Aeschliman turns ...

When the food-plot craze was just gaining steam, there were all sorts of articles like this one promising easy-peasy plots whipped up in a jiffy with nothing more than a sprayer, a few hand tools, and ...