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No-Till Highlights: July 24, 2025

By Mackane Vogel posted on July 24, 2025

This Week's Lineup:

Adapting No-Till Principles to Jump Start Soil Health on Your Farm
New Road Trip Style Ag Podcast Series Highlights No-Till & Cover Crops
No-Till Black Bean Test Plot
Pennsylvania No-Till Alliance Celebrates 20 Years with Upcoming Field Days
The Great Glyphosate Debate Carries On

[Podcast] Fixing Compaction — Without Full Tillage — in Long-Term No-Till Fields

On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Yetter Farm Equipment, Michael Thompson, No-Till Farmer’s 2025 Conservation Ag Operator Fellow, shares how he’s alleviating compaction with an AerWay unit in Almena, Kan.

By Noah Newman posted on June 27, 2025 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Soil Health

Conservation Ag Update

Fixing Compaction — Without Full Tillage — in Long-Term No-Till Fields

By Noah Newman posted on June 27, 2025 | Posted in Cover Crops, Equipment, Nutrient Management, Precision Agriculture, Seeding & Planting

On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Yetter Farm Equipment, we’re headed inside CTIC’s Conservation in Action Tour in Sioux Falls, S.D., where a pair of conservation ag legends were inducted into the CTIC Hall of Fame.

Jim Hershey Plans for Sudan Sorghum Cover Crop Live Planting Demo

By Mackane Vogel posted on June 15, 2025 | Posted in Cover Crops

Mackane Vogel here with this week’s cover crop connection and as i said before we are in Elizabethtown Pennsylvania at Jim Hershey’s farm and why don’t we see what Jim Hershey has been working on this year with cover crops.

Conservation Ag Update

Sidedress Switch: No-Till Innovator Swaps Coulters for Knives

By Noah Newman posted on June 13, 2025 | Posted in Cover Crops, Equipment, Nutrient Management, Precision Agriculture, Seeding & Planting

No-Till 101

Conservation Ag Foundation Established to Promote Sustainable Farming

Longtime no-tillers & educators serve on foundation’s board, guiding mission to help farmers to adopt conservation practices

December 27, 2023

Lessiter Media, the publisher of No-Till Farmer magazine, has established the Conservation Ag Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing conservation-based ag practices.

No-Till’s Best Innovators and Legends Share Their Failures and Successes

No-till experts provide valuable insight during special Q&A session at the National No-Tillage Conference.

By Noah Newman posted on August 10, 2022 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Residue Management, Seeding & Planting, Soil Health

The No-Till Innovators program has recognized more than 100 farmers, businesses and organizations who have made a major impact on the growth of no-till over the years. Five members of the distinguished group shared the ups and downs from their journey during a panel discussion at the 2022 National No-Tillage Conference in Louisville, Ky.

3 No-Till Nutrient Stewards Honored

The 13th class of Responsible Nutrient Management Practitioners is reaping the rewards from soil and tissue testing, thoughtful fertilizer applications and using cover crops.

By Laura Handke posted on January 28, 2021 | Posted in Cover Crops, Nutrient Management, Soil Health

Recognized for their successful, exacting fertilizer application practices, Karl Dirks, Mount Joy, Pa., Don Villwock of Edwardsport, Ind., and Lowell King of Loma, Colo., were honored as the 12th class of Responsible Nutrient Management Practitioners at the 2020 National No-Tillage Conference in St. Louis.

6 Planter Setups for Tough No-Till Conditions

Growers in central Pennsylvania share how they tweaked their planting units to optimize corn stands while still getting cover crops into their rotations.

By John Dobberstein posted on October 14, 2019 | Posted in Equipment, Residue Management, Seeding & Planting

Soil conditions in Pennsylvania can vary as much as the terrain, from sandy or clay loam to rocks and knobs of shale — presenting a potential nightmare for no-tillers trying to achieve consistent stands and protect yield potential.

Promoting the No-Till Cause — For Free

By Mark McNeely posted on May 31, 2018

The Pennsylvania No-Till Alliance announced that it is beginning a program that makes its 13-member board of directors available for speaking engagements at state conservation events.

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Cover Crops, Strip-Till Spark Desert Soil Revival

On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Titan International, we pay a visit to Strip-Till Innovator Robert Boyle’s farm in Coolidge, Ariz., for an up-close look at how he’s transforming his soils with cover crops and diverse rotations.

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