No-till farming is a technique that does not disturb the soil by planting new crops directly on the previous soil. He said ...

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 ...

Farmers and ranchers from North Dakota and Canada are meeting this week in Dickinson, N.D., to learn and discuss the latest science behind no-till farming. No-till farming is a technique in which ...

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 ...

HASTINGS, Neb. -- Bob Johnson began using the no-till farming method on his central Nebraska farm 10 years ago as an experiment. Today, he says it is a necessity. A drought that has lasted more than ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s been a quiet revolution during the past decade — the sound of farmers not plowing their fields. In a paper on no-till farming, Philip Gersmehl, associate professor of geography at the University ...

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 ...

Experts weigh in on no-to-low-till farming equipment, tools, and technology that will preserve the health of your soil to maximize growth potential. Soil consists of sand, silt, and clay, which come ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A dirt storm blew across I-55 in central ...

Analysis quantifies monetary land value benefits of environmentally friendly practice. No-till farming, considered to be a more environmentally friendly farming practice that reduces soil disturbance ...