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 ...

Among the reasons healthy soil produces higher yielding crops is that healthy soil can take in and store more water. One way to create healthier soil is to refrain from tillage. That’s not exactly ...

While drought conditions have eased up in many parts of the country, that’s not the case for Iowa. Nearly all of the state is experiencing some degree of dryness – especially the north-central part of ...

Crumbaughs Among Handful of Michigan Growers Employing Zone Till in Sugarbeets Stale seedbeds — wherein fields are tilled in the fall and then left untouched the following spring until the planter ...