Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the most important parts of any conservation or farming operation is establishing goals to work toward. It is easy to do ...

Residue management is the practice of maintaining some or all of the previous year's crop residue on the soil surface over winter and even after the next year's crop is planted. The residue management ...

New findings share how prescribed fire and no-till management impact soil microbes. In some ways, farming is like cooking. Cooking would be much easier if we could leave the kitchen after eating and ...

JUNEAU - Last year, more than 166,000 Dodge County cropland acres, comprising 62 percent of all cultivated cropland, were tilled and planted using some form of residue management system, according to ...

Switching part of your acres to no-till is as simple as just parking the tillage tractor, right? Maybe not. Here are a few considerations before trying no-till for the first time. In the Des Moines ...

Severe cases of tar spot in corn can kill plants and result in grain yield losses up to 60 bushels per acre.¹ How can something as simple as residue management help you mitigate the impact of this ...

After harvest in the fall, farmers take the harvested crops to market or store them on their farm. They don't take the whole plant from the field, though. The leftover parts of the plant, like the ...