Lisa Blazure, soil health coordinator with Stroud Water Research Center, points out night crawler tunnels in the clay soil beneath Penn England Farm’s cornfield topsoil. Night crawlers are essential ...

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. Not. The positive power of ...

The Texas High Plains can be unforgiving with lack of rainfall, high temperatures and powerful wind gusts. Barry Evans, a Swisher County, Texas, farmer, has learned to embrace the challenging ...

BEATRICE (AP) - Farmers in southeast Nebraska can earn credits - and cash - for using conservation tillage practices.BEATRICE (AP) - Farmers in southeast Nebraska can earn credits - and cash - for ...

Jumping into a farmer’s tractor is one way Rich Bupp tries to make the transition to regenerative agriculture easier. Farmers employing regenerative agriculture concentrate on improving soil health ...

"Our experience of being no-till farmers translates into being completely by hand. And I think that that is — it's somewhat unique and not unique historically. It's part of the indigenous wisdom," ...

BEATRICE — Farmers in southeast Nebraska can earn credits — and cash — for using conservation tillage practices. The program rewards producers for not disturbing the soil; thus, keeping greenhouse gas ...

No-till could also create a carbon sponge to retain water in the soil and cut back on evaporation, a change extremely welcome in California, where water is scarce and droughts are common, said Paul ...