FERGUS FALLS, Minn. - There are farmers who strip-till and those who no-till, but does anyone still do ridge-till? You bet, says St. Clair-area farmer Brian Loeffler. However, farmers don't think of ...

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 ...

Many combinations of tillage methods are available for corn and soybean production. Currently much of the primary tillage is done in the fall. Deep tillage with the moldboard plow is still common, but ...

Weed seed and seedling populations, and weed competition were compared in plots of continuous corn and corn/soybean rotation under ridge and conventional tillage. After 7 to 8 yr of standard chemical ...

Several reduced tillage practices include vertical-till, strip-till, zone-till, and no-till. Reducing tillage means exactly what you think — making fewer passes through the field and/or decreasing the ...

ST. CHARLES, Minn. -- Arland Otte rebuilds ridges every other year. When corn is planted into soybean stubble, ridge till requires two passes with a cultivator. When Otte cultivates the first time he ...