News

No-till planting sweet corn after terminating rye with herbicide seems easier to switch to (from conventional tillage) than no-till planting with rye terminated by roller-crimping at planting. The ...
Come join us at this year's event, featuring all new agronomic content to help farmers grow and harvest high-yielding crops.
It’s a no-till way of making a nice garden bed rather than turning the soil to make a new seed bed every year.” Here’s how to create a lasagna bed, also called sheet mulching: ...
Jim Hershey gave up the plow long before no-till farming was credited with improving soil health. When he made the switch in ...
Much of the research on regenerative farming practices, such as no-till or cover crops, has looked at the benefits to the environment and the soil. Now a new study finds these farming practices ...
The Pennsylvania No-Till Alliance is celebrating its 20th anniversary with field days planned in Eastern and Western ...
No-till corn also uses a massive amount of synthetic fertilizers that can harm soil life and our health—about 7.6 billion pounds each year. On top of that, the report shows conventional no-till ...
When it comes to till vs. no-till, there is give and take in any situation, according to an Ashland County soil conservationist.
How many times have you heard the phrase "knee-high by the Fourth of July" when referring to corn crops? What does it mean?
Over the last couple of decades, Jeff Sturgis, founder of Whitetail Habitat Solutions and author of Whitetail Success by Design, has perfected an Ultimate No-Till Food Plot system that makes even ...
He grows barley, oats, wheat, corn, soybeans and other crops using no-till planting, cover crops, mixed farming (sheep graze his fields in between plantings) and other regenerative practices, for ...