A survey showed that 80% of no-till farmers use cover crops. However, less than 5% of all cropland is protected through the ...

HAMPTON, Iowa — Long-time Practical Farmers of Iowa members Doug Alert and Margaret Smith have looked at organic no-till planting into cover crops, a system pioneered by Jeff Moyer at the Rodale ...

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 ...

While the practice of no-till gardening is not new, information has traditionally centered on agricultural field crops. Now, home gardeners are catching on. “The concept of no-till has been around for ...

NORA SPRINGS — Glancing over his shoulder, Tom Wolters guides the John Deere 750 no-till planting drill across the stubble of last season’s corn crop. His 300-acre farming operation is a study in land ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Planting corn for the year is getting higher and higher on Jim Ketelhut’s to-do list. Ketelhut, who has been farming 15 miles south of Chamberlain for more than 30 years, ...

For farmers struggling to make a living with corn and soybeans, a new cash crop may be on the horizon: carbon. Although it can't be used to feed animals or make vegetable oil, "farming" carbon could ...