Brian Carlson grew up familiar with Iowa agriculture as his father and grandfather farmed in Benton County. Carlson, who farms corn and soybeans just south of Garrison, remembers his grandfather ...

You can switch to strip-till for all the right reasons but work against the benefits with a lax approach to soil preparation. The appeal of strip-till is that it offers a profitable and more ...

A wet field can cost a farmer time and money. But tiling has become a popular way to solve that problem. Field Drainage Inc. has been tiling fields in the Red River Valley for four decades and has ...

Unseasonably warm weather might have farmers tilling their fields earlier than normal, but a Purdue Extension agronomist cautioned them against tilling more than necessary. While there’s nothing wrong ...

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 ...

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As the adoption of no-till practices has spread widely across parts of the U.S. over the past few decades, the approach has been touted as an important means of storing carbon in soil—and a key ...

MITCHELL, S.D. -- With record-setting rain totals in several areas, South Dakota farmers have started looking to a familiar solution to avoid flooding in the future. After a rainy summer and fall, ...