Coffee Table Dreams Become Reality for Western Iowa Couple
A Monona County couple’s vision for the family farm is becoming reality thanks to a sound plan, a couple years of very hard work, and guidance and assistance from USDA.
A Monona County couple’s vision for the family farm is becoming reality thanks to a sound plan, a couple years of very hard work, and guidance and assistance from USDA.
Bryan and Chelsea Phipps are using their cattle as tools to improve soil health, reduce erosion and weeds, and harvest one of our planet’s greatest resources – sunlight on their ranch near Brusett, Montana.
For 23 years Jason Brewer thought he was a no-till farmer until he met other no-till farmers.
Meet John and Nora Stauner, owners and operators of James Lake Farms, an organic cranberry marsh in Oneida County, Wisconsin.
Katie Coppoletta shares the benefits of conservation planning on a smaller organic farm in Corbett, Oregon.
Keota farmer Levi Lyle never thought he would be a go-to person for eastern Iowa farmers to rent a roller crimper. But with his interest in eliminating the use of herbicides on portions of his family’s cropland, he now has two crimpers that he uses and rents to farmers from Waterloo to Bloomfield.
After reading the book Organic No-Till Farming by Jeff Moyer, Levi Lyle was motivated to reduce the use of chemicals and tillage when he moved back to the family farm about five years ago.
Meet the owners of High Ground Organics Farm in Watsonville, California, Jeanne Byrne and Stephen Pedersen, who work hard to make the effects on surrounding wildlife and water quality beneficial ones.
A southeast Iowa farm family harvested record average yields in 2016 after managing cropland soils with no-till and cover crops. They attribute the yield bump to a bottoms up approach, by improving returns on typically poor-performing fields.
For the past five years, USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in North Carolina has been working with local partners and landowners to implement conservation practices to help restore and maintain the longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) ecosystem.