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No-Tiller Tom Cotter Receives Minnesota Leopold Conservation Award

December 3, 2025 | Posted in Cover Crops, Soil Health

Tom’s transition to no-till was a considerable risk in Minnesota’s colder, wetter soils, requiring equipment modifications and adjustment of planting dates. He says combining cover crops with no-till and livestock grazing was the game changer for his farm.

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Farmers Could Serve ‘Spearhead’ Role in MAHA Food Safety Movement

By John Dobberstein posted on September 9, 2025 | Posted in Agriculture Policy & Programs

Soil health, precision farming and regenerative agriculture could play a major role in the MAHA movement to improve the health of Americans.

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No-Till Highlights: July 3, 2025

By Mackane Vogel posted on July 3, 2025

This Week's Lineup:

Dwayne Beck Explains the True Meaning & History of No-Till
No-Tillers Need to Work WITH Nature not Against It
Planting No-Till Garlic into an Oat Cover Crop
Farmers Mimic Mother Nature To Build Soils and Yield Success
Keeping it Simple with the No-Till Planter

Lessiter Media Washington D.C. Interviews, June 2025

June 26, 2025

Watch as Mike Lessiter, Editor/Publisher of No-Till Farmer magazine, interviews representatives from the Agricultural Retailers Association, National Association of Conservation Districts, The Fertilizer Institute and Field to Market.

Time to Move Your Circle

Sometimes you’ve just got to get out of your own head.

By Mike Lessiter posted on June 26, 2025 | Posted in Agriculture Policy & Programs

For the first time in years, I attended a business media summit in Washington D.C. I was the only ag guy in a room full of mostly financial publishers. I hung around an extra day this time to see organizations that might be out of our normal field of vision. While AEM and AED are working on national machinery business issues, I wanted to hear from some groups who might not show up on your radar since their missions are tangential to your business.

Degenerative or Regenerative Ag

April 21, 2025 | Posted in Agriculture Policy & Programs, Nutrient Management, Seeding & Planting

"I think lately the question that I run into the most is what is regenerative agriculture? And I struggle along with that and try to give my explanation, but my guest today has a perspective of talking about something related to it..."

Sifting Through the Best Roundtable Tips & Ideas from Conferences

By Noah Newman posted on April 18, 2025 | Posted in Cover Crops, Crop Protection, Equipment, Nutrient Management, Precision Agriculture, Residue Management, Seeding & Planting

Here are over 40 actionable ideas, tips and observations from the most recent roundtable discussions at the National Strip-Tillage and No-Tillage Conferences.

Regenerating Your Profits: No-Till, Covers & Livestock

Using diversification & data to inform his management decisions, Mac Kincaid can prove regenerative no-till is paying off on his 1,000-acre Missouri farm.

By John Dobberstein posted on March 17, 2025 | Posted in Cover Crops, Nutrient Management, Residue Management

Bringing regenerative practices to degraded soil is no easy endeavor. But Mac Kincaid looks no further than his family to understand why he punches the calculator, braves freezing temperatures during the winter to move livestock, and troubleshoots ever-present weather challenges.

How Minnesota Farmers Increased Residue Coverage by 28% in 4 Years

March 13, 2025 | Posted in Cover Crops, Residue Management, Soil Health

Source: University of Minnesota Extension

Tracking the use of practices like reduced tillage and cover crops that promote healthy soil is challenging but critical to gauge progress towards regional and state goals. Farmers are reducing tillage and increasing soil cover. We see more residue cover on the field, nearly doubling from 36% in 2016 to 64%.

Yes, He's a Regenerative Agriculture Skeptic

By Frank Lessiter posted on January 16, 2025

When the principles of regenerative ag are broken down to their core components, Shane Thomas sees it as a bundling of practices with the aim of “regenerating” the soil (an outcome), including increasing organic matter (soil carbon) encouraging biological activity and mitigating soil erosion.

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On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Titan International, we catch up with young Kentucky no-tiller Quint Pottinger to see how he autonomously planted his entire crop in 2026. Senior editor John Dobberstein checks in from the CTIC Conservation in Action Tour in Scotland Neck, N.C., where no-tiller Zeb Winslow III talks about his multi-species cover crop program.

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