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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CENTRAL ILLINOIS (WCIA) — The EPA is giving $430 million to Illinois for climate programs and a lot will be going to farmers. The ...

When fourth-generation farmer Lance Saathoff climbs into the cab of his 510-horsepower John Deere tractor, he's in a control center that's guided by distant satellites to fraction-of-an-inch precision ...

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 ...

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 ...

Launched at Commodity Classic, strip-tillage implement blends conservation with productivity. Case IH’s new Nutri-Tiller 1000 Series strip-tillage implement aims to deliver the best of both worlds for ...

For 60 years, organic farmers have claimed they hold the secret to human sustainability. They claim modern high-tech farming “ruins soils,” and that, as they do, we must bar chemical fertilizers and ...

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 ...

You’re almost ready. You’ve removed dense and compacted soil layers, balanced fertility and pH through the profile and set up your soil for vertical farming. That’s how you’ll need to farm to reap the ...

WINDOM, Minn. — The corn and beans had already pushed their way through the stubble. Farmers from across southern Minnesota walked the strip-tilled fields last week during the Conservation Tillage ...