$50 million will spent over three years in conservation assistance to farmers and ranchers in priority areas along seven major rivers in five states that drain into the Gulf.

Through the past 50 years of farming, Webster City, Iowa, farmer Arlo Van Diest has tried many different pieces of equipment and many different practices. His goal is to leave the land better for future generations.

50-40-20. Those three numbers have great significance to the No-Till Farmer family.

Recognizing Ohio's top conservation farm families seemed particularly significant during this year's awards ceremony at the Farm Science Review Sept. 22.

The American Soybean Association (ASA) is pleased to announce Ryan Speer of Jacob Farms in Sedgwick, Kan. (Midwest Region), Rodney Rulon of Rulon Enterprises in Arcadia, Ind. (Northeast Region) and E. Cullen Bryant of Bryant Farms in Dillon, S.C. (South Region) as the regional winners of the 2012 Conservation Legacy Awards.

The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition has released an updated version of its Farmers' Guide to the Conservation Stewardship Program.

Even as we just released our September issue of No-Till Farmer newsletter and are working on the October issue, we're forging ahead with big plans for the Fall issue of No-Till Farmer's Conservation Tillage Guide.

Terry Elsberndbegan using no-till practices on his corn-soybean rotation to save labor and conserve soil and he recently began using no-till in a corn-on-corn rotation.