Learn six proven strategies to successfully transition your farm to no-till and cover crops without overspending on tight margins.

No-till planting is a great tool for conventional farmers to use in order to help the environment. No-till planting can reduce erosion, improve infiltration, reduce runoff, and build organic matter.

"If these sunflowers grow, I'll shave my mustache," a farmer joked when Dr. Metin Tuna asked him to try direct seeding sunflowers. Dr. Tuna is a plant geneticist, breeding professor, and researcher at ...

Reducing your tillage or switching to an entirely no-till system can offer numerous environmental and economic benefits. Leaving the soil undisturbed reduces erosion and runoff, while also saving ...

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I grew up on my family farm in the 1980s and 1990s. Before the switch to no-till, I can remember a couple of tillage passes to supplement weed control. This was before herbicide-tolerant crops. The ...

I sat down to write this piece after a five-inch April snowstorm gave our newly planted wheat fields their first drink of the season. Wheat is one of five crops we raise on our farm just outside ...

Can a no-till garden really grow healthier plants with less effort? In this video, we put the no-till gardening method to the test and take a closer look at how it stacks up against traditional ...