Some companies are advertising planters that don’t have to be altered for use in no-till conditions. Nevertheless, the majority of planters need some modification for no-till, says John Siemens, ...

Several reduced tillage practices include vertical-till, strip-till, zone-till, and no-till. Reducing tillage means exactly what you think — making fewer passes through the field and/or decreasing the ...

EWING — The original no-till planter was not the primitive but ingenious machine parked here at the Ewing Demonstration Center. It was a screwdriver. Current and former educators associated with the ...

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 ...

Mention no-till around farmers of a certain age, and you will almost certainly hear, “I tried it in the ’80’s. It doesn’t work.” On the Field Work podcast episode “Mudholes in March,” hosts Zach ...

No-till planting of sweet corn into a killed winter rye cover crop has the potential to provide soil health benefits such as reduced compaction, improved soil water holding capacity, reduced ...

TORIN HALSEY/TIMES RECORD NEWS Trevor Lalk drives a tractor with a no-till planter to plant corn seed in a field near Punkin Center. Lalk Brothers Farms received an award for their soil conservation ...

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