No-till planting of sweet corn into a killed winter rye cover crop has the potential to provide soil health benefits such as reduced compaction, improved soil water holding capacity, reduced ...

WAVERLY, Iowa — Mark Mueller said his first goal with no-till is to save the soil. "I realize that there is not as much revenue to be made through reduced yields, but the reduction isn’t that much," ...

As harvest continues in central Illinois, Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie says he is fielding a lot of calls from farmers about whether to do fall tillage. For the most part, his ...

With the ongoing debate of tillage versus soil conservation methods, farmers have had to weigh whether they’d rather achieve a higher yield or practice good land management. However, according to a ...

While the practice of no-till gardening is not new, information has traditionally centered on agricultural field crops. Now, home gardeners are catching on. “The concept of no-till has been around for ...

BRECKENRIDGE, Minn. — “I like to try new things,” Vance Johnson says. This summer, sugarbeet growers and others will get a chance for an up-close look at some of his experiments with a test plot just ...

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 ...

No-till crop production gives the producer using this system the advantage of managing residues on the soil surface to improve soil structure, water infiltration, and lower soil moisture evaporation.