A meet and greet event at the bar is the first stop in a whirlwind week of events for the 2023 Conservation Ag Operator Fellow, who spent the summer organizing a group to carry on the late David Brandt’s vision for a farmer-to-farmer learning center in southwestern Wisconsin.

No-Till Legend Phil Needham, founder and owner of Needham Ag Technologies in Calhoun, Ky., identifies 9 wheat yield and profit management practices to take your no-till wheat crop to the next level.

Fourth-generation farmer John Burk grows corn, soybeans, dry beans, sugar beets and wheat across 4,300 acres in Bay City, Mich., just 10 miles south of Lake Huron.

What do crown gall disease in trees and trait-improved varieties of commercial crops have in common?

I'm a farmer above all. If I could just do one thing, I would farm, but I figured out that I have to have other things to do to help pay for that.

As a corn producer, are you satisfied with 185 bushels per acre, the average no-till corn yield in 2022 according to No-Till Farmer’s No-Till Operational Practices Survey

Each year, Bruce Waibel sees scores of planters come through Solid Rock Ag Solutions, his business in northwest Indiana that takes care of “all things planter.”

Our heavy clay soils are among our greatest farm management challenges. They’re also vaults holding exceptionally valuable production rewards.