There’s no doubt about it. When it comes to continuous no-till farming, this method has humbled the best-of-the-best soil scratchers at one time or another. For those no-till dabblers, it is important ...

Switching part of your acres to no-till is as simple as just parking the tillage tractor, right? Maybe not. Here are a few considerations before trying no-till for the first time. In the Des Moines ...

First, the bad news: We’ve lost millions of tons of soil from croplands in the United States annually for the past 20 years due to water and wind erosion. The rate of erosion skyrockets the more soil ...

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 ...

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

A hands-on project that brings a decades-old planter back to life through smart modifications and persistence. From welding fixes to creative adjustments, this build shows how old farm equipment can ...