Dean Sponheim, Osage, has been crisscrossing north central Iowa and southern Minnesota counties throughout the winter, presenting informational meetings on the use of cover crops and strip-till ...

With the ongoing debate of tillage versus soil conservation methods, farmers have had to weigh whether they’d rather achieve a higher yield or practice good land management. However, according to a ...

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 ...

All signs point to incentives for farmers to reduce tillage and grow cover crops. Some farmers will factor these incentives into their profit/loss statements, which will be a game changer. Through the ...

More farmers are trying out conservation tillage and cover crops, but not all of them choose to permanently adopt the practices, a new Economic Research Service report has found. The analysis of USDA ...

A new study of 30 geographically diverse farms suggests growers who consistently employ soil health management practices such as cover crops and reduced tillage can spend less on inputs and make more ...

AMES | Iowa Learning Farms will host a strip-tillage and cover crop field day from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 19 at the Dean Stromer farm near Klemme. Topics include the use of ...

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 ...

GOSHEN — According to the Indiana State Department of Agriculture, there has been a large increase in the number of farmers using cover crops in Indiana. Known for their environmental benefits, ...

BAY CITY, MI - A shot of federal funding is being funneled towards areas surrounding the Saginaw Bay to promote more environmentally friendly farming practices. The U.S. Department of Agriculture ...