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 ...

No-till farming, considered to be a more environmentally friendly farming practice that reduces soil disturbance when compared with conventional practices, appears to have an important benefit besides ...

A no-till expert and former Dakota Lakes Research Farm manager shared his studied insights at a southeast Minnesota soil health tour stop. Dwayne Beck, retired research manager at Dakota Lakes ...

No-till farming, a technique long known to save farmers time, resources and dollars, is now shown to actually add value to the land on which it’s practiced. According to a new study by North Carolina ...

TULSA, Okla. - The blade is king in agriculture. Crop producers are surveying a lot of wet, weed-infested fields out there and can't wait to plow deep and heavy this planting season. The positive ...

Lisa Blazure, soil health coordinator with Stroud Water Research Center, points out night crawler tunnels in the clay soil beneath Penn England Farm’s cornfield topsoil. Night crawlers are essential ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Increase no-till farming practices across the planet or face serious climate, soil quality and food production problems in the next 20 to 50 years. That warning from scientists ...

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 ...

One of the fields the researchers used in the no-till farming study at Michigan State University's Kellog Biological Station. Results from a nearly 30-year ongoingstudy published by researchers ...

WILLMAR -- For centuries, the plowing and tilling of cropland has been a common farming practice used by farmers around the world to control weeds and prepare the soil for seeding. But in recent years ...

The Department of Agriculture’s campaign to stop farmers from digging up the soil is running into an obstacle: the chemicals the agency promotes to kill weeds. The Department of Agriculture’s campaign ...

Flowers are big business. The United States is the largest consumer of the world's $29.2 billion cut flower market. We head to Rhode Island, where a small farm is meeting demand, sustainably. Head ...