You could call Dean Sponheim an accidental conservationist. Well, at least initially, anyway. In 1999, Sponheim was frustrated that every year he had to replant a big chunk of a field that wasn't well ...

Cotton farming is on the rise across the South, and that spells trouble for rural songbirds. Conventionally grown cotton relies heavily on pesticides, herbicides and plowing or disking every three ...

For farmers looking to maintain the benefits of vertical tillage while enjoying some of the soil health impacts of no-till, strip tillage is a popular option. With strip tillage, the seedbed for next ...

Left: examples of cover crops with radishes, oats, and buckwheat. Right: strip-till with soybeans growing in a cereal rye cover. (Photos from Chase Brown) After the deadly I-55 dirt storm, an Illinois ...

If you found it tough going in fields this fall post-harvest and use strip tillage, you might need to regroup and consider other options, according to Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal Field Agronomist and ...

Vattenfall is leading a Dutch consortium in a research project to assess whether agrivoltaics is also compatible with strip cropping. The company’s head of Solar Development NL, Annemarie Schouten, ...

Strip tillage is a conservation tillage practice involving minimum tillage to create a seedbed condition that disturbs only the portion of the soil to contain the seed row. The no-till area has crop ...

Cotton farming is on the rise across the South, and that spells trouble for rural songbirds. Conventionally grown cotton relies heavily on pesticides, herbicides and plowing or disking every three ...