Taking No-Till to the Next Level
For 23 years Jason Brewer thought he was a no-till farmer until he met other no-till farmers.
For 23 years Jason Brewer thought he was a no-till farmer until he met other no-till farmers.
NRCS conservation programs help keep the Chapman's dairy alive.
Meet Gene Thornton of Sneaky Crow Farm in Roanoke, Alabama and learn how he works with Mother Nature to produce organic fruits and vegetables for his community.
Meet Iowa's 2015 Soil Conservation Farmer of the Year Award recipient, Tim Smith, one of the many conservation farmers participating in a USDA program designed to reduce nutrient and sediment loading in the Mississippi River Basin.
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.
As a fifth-generation farmer, Joe Keusch knows a thing or two about his land. And, his 110-year-old farm located in the Ell Creek Watershed is a little different than most in Indiana.
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.
Brendan Black is an Atlantic Highlands, NJ resident and student at West Virginia University, majoring in Wildlife and Fisheries Management. He spent much of his 2015 summer break as an Earth Team volunteer.
For Roger Wenning, the key to sustaining his farming operation for the future lies in conservation practices.