There is significant discussion over soil management and water quality. Concerns regarding erosion, loss of top soil and water retention are key elements to the discussion. And water quality concerns ...

John Deere’s latest tillage tool lineup provides more flexibility for farmers through new smaller two-section high-speed disk models in four widths, and autonomy-ready rippers and field cultivators.

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 ...

Learn about no-till farming and the ecological benefits of this agricultural technique. Daniel Mays of Frith Farm in Scarborough is a leader in no-till practices and lends a hand to help other farmers ...

Nebraska farmer Ray Ward shows how no-till practices transformed his eroded land into a profitable, sustainable operation.

Farmer interest in no-till and cover crops has probably never been higher. That interest is fueled by stewardship and, in many cases, government incentives such as USDA’s Conservation Stewardship ...

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 ...

Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets UVM Extension and the Northeast Cover Crops Council invite you to attend the 2026 ...

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 ...

The digging, stirring and overturning of soil by conventional ploughing in tillage farming is severely damaging earthworm populations around the world, say scientists. The findings show a systematic ...

One of the fields the researchers used in the no-till farming study at Michigan State University's Kellog Biological Station. Results from a nearly 30-year ongoingstudy published by researchers ...