Discover how to maximize your farm’s productivity with the right tillage equipment! In this video, we test a heavy-duty disc and a large chisel plow, showing step-by-step how to cut firebreaks and ...

A South Dakota farmer plans to use either a high-speed disk or a VT super coulter to ready the seedbed in fields this spring. He asks for help to know which tool to select for the job.

Tillage is the only option to fix the lingering effects of a wet spring As the combines roll across fields, it’s not hard to spot the wheel tracks, ruts and pinch rows. At planting and sidedressing, ...

DECORAH, Iowa — Soil erosion comes at a cost. Andy Herringshaw, an Iowa State University economics graduate student who is working with the Iowa Learning Farm, discussed that cost at a recent field ...

URBANA, Ill. – For the past several decades, farmers have been abandoning their plows in favor of a practice known as no-till agriculture. Today, about one-third of U.S. farmers are no longer tilling ...

To achieve minimum tillage a good 4WD tractor, a subsoiler, a sprayer in good working condition and a planter that is set up correctly. [Joseph Muchiri, Standard] Faced with climate change challenges, ...

Microbes improve soil quality by cycling nutrients and breaking plant residues down into soil organic matter. In an effort to detect consistent patterns across a large geographical area, researchers ...