John Dobberstein
John Dobberstein is the Senior Editor of No-Till Farmer, Strip-Till Farmer, and Cover Crop Strategies. He previously covered agriculture for the Tulsa World and worked for daily newspapers in Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Joseph, Mich. This is John's second stint with Lessiter Media, the previous lasting almost 13 years.
Contact: jdobberstein@lessitermedia.com
Contact: jdobberstein@lessitermedia.com
ARTICLES
[Podcast] Remembering Bill Cannon — A No-Till Pioneer
In the latest episode of the podcast, brought to you by Yetter Farm Equipment, listen to a discussion about Pennsylvania No-Till Pioneer Bill Cannon.
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What No-Tillers Can Learn from 1,000 Farms
Workers at the Ecdysis Foundation crunched data from more than 1,200 operations across the U.S. & Canada to illustrate what building soil health & biodiversity can do for profitability
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[Podcast] A New Cover Crop Business is Born
In the latest episode of the podcast, brought to you by Yetter Farm Equipment, listen to our conversation with Iowa no-tiller and executive director of the Conservation Technology Information Center, Ryan Heiniger.
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[Podcast] No-Till Farmer’s 1:1 with Elizabeth Burns-Thompson, Modern Ag Alliance
In the latest episode of the podcast, brought to you by Yetter Farm Equipment, No-Till Farmer President and CEO Mike Lessiter caught up with Elizabeth Burns-Thompson, Executive Director of the Modern Ag Alliance, following her TED TALK-style presentation at the 2026 National No-Tillage Conference in St. Louis.
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Drones Proving Valuable for Applying Fungicides
When compared to ground rigs, airplanes or helicopters, drones offer competitive performance in low-volume applications, research at Beck’s Hybrids shows
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No-Tiller Plants Entire Corn Crop with Driverless Tractor
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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