A Great Plains no-tiller who ‘walks the walk’ with taking soil health seriously shares how no-till is helping him succeed.

A new study suggests pumping restrictions might not need to be as severe as originally thought to save the imperiled part of the Ogallala aquifer. But the news about its sustainable use in the future still isn’t good.

I came across an article this week that seems to mirror the challenges we’re having today with implementing conservation practices in the semi-arid Great Plains, and the concern I’ve had that our agricultural leaders are not on the same page about this.

August was not a good month for glyphosate and Bayer executives who recently finalized a $62.5 billion purchase of Monsanto and Roundup herbicide.

Many naysayers don’t believe you can no-till sugarbeets, but Greg Schlemmer has proved his doubters wrong as he’s been no-tilling irrigated sugarbeets in southern Montana for the last 5 years. Find out how he’s doing it.

When it comes to scouting no-till fields, Michael Horsch isn’t convinced you can do a good job from the driver’s seat of a SUV. In fact, he maintains placing too much emphasis on computerized prescription farming practices rather than walking fields is a major mistake for no-tillers.

Soil conservation and resiliency was a popular topic as G20 ag ministers met last month. Now let’s talk about accountability.

The EPA has approved sorghum oil as an eligible feedstock under the Renewable Fuel Standard, a significant step toward leveling the playing field for ethanol plants extracting oil from sorghum.

Passage of a unique concept that got Congressional consideration during the writing of the 2018 Farm Bill could put more dollars in the pockets of no-tillers. It’s an idea that farmers who use no-till, cover crops and conservation-minded crop rotations to protect the soil should be rewarded with an equivalent of auto insurance’s “good driver discount” when it comes to paying crop insurance premiums.

No-tilling in the U.S. often involves thousands of acres and a lot of complex decisions about seed, equipment and inputs. But for Raju Titus, simplicity is what made his farm profitable.