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 ...

A former North Dakota farmer once called the “evangelist of no-till” passed away March 5, 2023, at his home in Wayzata, Minnesota. Luther Allen Berntson was 91 years old at the time of his death and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Farmers and researchers in Reidsville see the positive impacts of no-till agriculture. Tilling soil has long been thought of as a necessary step in agricultural production. A long-term study by ...

Local farmers, Farmers for Soil Health, The Nature Conservancy and the Ohio No-Till Council met at Burkholder Farms and discussed soil practices in the field Tuesday in Lima. LIMA — Farmers from area ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...