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 ...
No-till farming is a technique that does not disturb the soil by planting new crops directly on the previous soil. He said ...
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 ...
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 ...
TULSA, Okla. - The blade is king in agriculture. Crop producers are surveying a lot of wet, weed-infested fields out there and can't wait to plow deep and heavy this planting season. The positive ...
DECORAH, Iowa — Paul Hunter agreed to host an Iowa Learning Farm field day because he thought it might encourage others to consider no-till farming. "No-till is one of those things that unless you see ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Department of Agriculture’s campaign to stop farmers from digging up the soil is running into an obstacle: the chemicals the agency promotes to kill weeds. The Department of Agriculture’s campaign ...
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 ...
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Accomplished farmer shares undeniably effective method for drastically boosting crop yields: '[It] works harmoniously with nature'
An experienced South African farmer shared his remarkably simple methods for drastically improving crop yields in a ...
For decades, moldboard plows, disks and field cultivators, all horizontal tillage tools, have been the go-tos for fieldwork. That’s changing as fears about climate change come into focus. Sooner or ...
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