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 ...

ST. PAUL -- Fall tillage decisions became a lot more complicated because of the heavy rains in September. Flooding and the prospects for another wet harvest season will make effectively using tillage ...

Soil preparation methods in U.S. agriculture reached a watershed in 1997. Nationally, conservation tillage acres outstripped conventional acres for the first time ever last season, with 37.3% of the ...

Lauren Arcuri is a writer and an experienced small farmer based in rural Vermont. Once you've tested and amended your soil, it's time to get it ready for planting. With many different methods of ...

The Academy Awards, the Emmys, maybe, but ballyhoo for an agricultural practice — especially one dealing with dust, dirt and year-old stubble — is just not expected. But persistent and vigorous ...

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 ...

Naeem Kalwar, soil health specialist at Langdon Research Extension Center, believes wind erosion will worsen if farmers continue conventional tillage. But converting to no-till requires patience.

1: Included are outdoor arable land, cultivated during the harvest (crop) year. Excluded are areas with crops which stay longer than one year on the arable land for example ley, asparagus, hops, ...

SIDNEY, MT – An important two-year research project is underway at Montana State University's Eastern Ag Research Center in Sidney, Mont., comparing conventional till sugarbeet planting to no-till and ...