When Annie Dee’s family moved to Alabama, it meant a transition from farming white sand in Florida to working with heavy, abused clay soils in their new location — making planting and establishment of cash crops very difficult. But turning to high-tech, conservation-based farming has significantly brightened the results and outlook for the family’s 4,000-acre operation.

The Aliceville, Ala., no-tiller and former No-Till Innovator Award winner will share how reduced tillage and no-till practices, cover crops cocktails, precision technology and spoon-feeding nutrients has rejuvenated the farm’s rain-soaked soils, stabilized corn and soybean yields and set the operation up for future productivity and profitability of Dee River Ranch.