There is significant discussion over soil management and water quality. Concerns regarding erosion, loss of top soil and water retention are key elements to the discussion. And water quality concerns ...

Tilling helps farmers control weeds and boost soil fertility. But it also degrades a field's ability to hold water and carbon ...

For decades, moldboard plows, disks and field cultivators, all horizontal tillage tools, have been the go-tos for fieldwork. That’s changing as fears about climate change come into focus. Sooner or ...

Learn about no-till farming and the ecological benefits of this agricultural technique. Daniel Mays of Frith Farm in Scarborough is a leader in no-till practices and lends a hand to help other farmers ...

When fourth-generation farmer Lance Saathoff climbs into the cab of his 510-horsepower John Deere tractor, he's in a control center that's guided by distant satellites to fraction-of-an-inch precision ...

Lisa Blazure, soil health coordinator with Stroud Water Research Center, points out night crawler tunnels in the clay soil beneath Penn England Farm’s cornfield topsoil. Night crawlers are essential ...

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 ...

Plowing, or tilling, is an age-old agricultural practice that readies the soil for planting by turning over the top layer to ...

Sustainable farming practices can help reduce that impact. Even though there is growing consumer demand for more ...