Just as we blend, cut, and fold ingredients together to follow a recipe, farmers use equipment to stir together soil and crop residue (stalks and roots of previous crops) before planting. This ...

The achievement represents a gain of 6 million acres, and it was the farmers in Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, South Dakota and Kansas who made it happen. Indiana's conservation tillage acreage was up ...

More farmers are trying out conservation tillage and cover crops, but not all of them choose to permanently adopt the practices, a new Economic Research Service report has found. The analysis of USDA ...

Three events — two centered around tillage and one on grazing — can provide Minnesota farmers with key insights to help ...

The share of acreage for major cash crops—wheat, corn, soybeans, and cotton—that are planted using conservation tillage has increased over the past two decades in the United States. Conservation ...

Bin-buster corn yields in the Midwest were far from the norm in 2019 because of adverse weather, but Curt Mether had one of his best crops ever. The Logan, Iowa, farmer credits 20 years of no-till ...

If you have an image in your head when you think “plow,” it’s probably a moldboard plow: a deep cutting edge that swoops up and out into a curved wing, the moldboard. As the plow moves forward, it ...

After a fall harvest and before the spring planting season, soil is typically cultivated so it can become more fertile and welcoming for plant growth. All farmers practice at least one type of tillage ...

Hariyo danda mathi haalo jotne sathi ho ho malee ho ho..." This popular Nepali folk song depicts the lifestyle of the Nepali farmers - getting up before sunrise to plow the field using traditional ...

Conservation tillage does not lower yield in modern cropping systems. Just as we blend, cut, and fold ingredients together to follow a recipe, farmers use equipment to stir together soil and crop ...