There is significant discussion over soil management and water quality. Concerns regarding erosion, loss of top soil and water retention are key elements to the discussion. And water quality concerns ...

John Deere’s latest tillage tool lineup provides more flexibility for farmers through new smaller two-section high-speed disk models in four widths, and autonomy-ready rippers and field cultivators.

Learn about no-till farming and the ecological benefits of this agricultural technique. Daniel Mays of Frith Farm in Scarborough is a leader in no-till practices and lends a hand to help other farmers ...

For decades, moldboard plows, disks and field cultivators, all horizontal tillage tools, have been the go-tos for fieldwork. That’s changing as fears about climate change come into focus. Sooner or ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Crop land that's left unplowed between harvests releases significantly smaller amounts of a potent greenhouse gas than conventionally plowed fields, according to a new study that ...

Farmer interest in no-till and cover crops has probably never been higher. That interest is fueled by stewardship and, in many cases, government incentives such as USDA’s Conservation Stewardship ...

Edward H. Faulkner, author of the 1943 agricultural book "Plowman's Folly," is credited with the creation of no-till farming. The definition of “properly managed” no-till has evolved and is a source ...

The digging, stirring and overturning of soil by conventional ploughing in tillage farming is severely damaging earthworm populations around the world, say scientists. The findings show a systematic ...

TULSA, Okla. - The blade is king in agriculture. Crop producers are surveying a lot of wet, weed-infested fields out there and can't wait to plow deep and heavy this planting season. The positive ...

One of the fields the researchers used in the no-till farming study at Michigan State University's Kellog Biological Station. Results from a nearly 30-year ongoingstudy published by researchers ...