As you wrap up harvest this year, the work isn’t quite over. With the end of one season, you beckon in a new one with the way you treat the soil and prepare it for spring planting just a few short ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - After a wet fall and spring, corn and soybean farmers must decide what field tillage operations are essential before planting the 2009 crop. "Where I think things are a little ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The seemingly endless fall rains continue to impact Midwestern farmers as they begin looking ahead to the 2007 spring planting season. Because wet weather delayed last season's ...

Last year, spring planting occurred during a cold dry spring, while this year conditions are warm and dry. Farmers have several planting options, depending on whether they are conventional tillage ...

If a Martian farmer parked his spaceship in the middle of the Corn Belt this spring, he’d likely think every farmer had gone to no-till from all the untouched crop residue. Of course, what really ...

The debate between conventional tillage and no-till has farmers considering environmental benefits and creating an optimal seed bed by burying crop residue. Strip tillage might provide a middle ground ...

ST. PAUL -- The wet fall has made harvest very challenging. Not only are farmers scratching their heads about how they are going to get in the field to harvest, they're also wondering when they will ...