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 ...

No-till and reduced-till systems have gained popularity for their benefits to soil health, moisture retention, and erosion ...

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 ...

Editor's note: Jeff Beach will be checking up with Vance Johnson throughout the growing season as part of our Follow a Farmer series. BRECKENRIDGE, Minn. — If it were a race, Vance Johnson says he ...

After years of struggling with varying cotton yields and low market prices, West Texas farmer Brady Askew made a big change ...

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 ...

ADVANCE, Mo. -- Stacks of plow blades rest on old wooden pallets inside a large barn and tool shed on the Paul Lanpher farm near Advance. Pipes have been welded into places on the plow blades. Some of ...

David Brandt was a central Ohio farmer and international leader in the conservationist movement who taught no-till and cover crop soil management on his farm and around the world. He was also an ...