Last summer, veteran organic farmer Scott Park was bewildered when he surveyed his vast tomato, corn, and sunflower fields. Before planting the crops on 350 acres he had radically cut down on tilling ...

HAMPTON, Iowa — Long-time Practical Farmers of Iowa members Doug Alert and Margaret Smith have looked at organic no-till planting into cover crops, a system pioneered by Jeff Moyer at the Rodale ...

Tilling is as synonymous with farming and gardening as compost and muddy boots. It’s used to eliminate weeds and break up hard soil so that tender seedlings may grow. So, it may come as a surprise ...

Measuring progress in regenerative practices at the farm level offers the greatest benefits to growers and food corporates ...

IDAHO FALLS (AP) | This will be Gordon Gallup's 30th season of no-till planting on his 3,000-acre Ririe farm. Gallup, who grows wheat, barley and alfalfa, said using no-till methods has helped him ...

I had heard of no-till farming, but did you know about no-till gardening? According to this piece from the Christian Science Monitor, the same concepts of organic no-till farming can be applied on a ...

An innovative farming technique using a roller-crimper has been used at the Steve Hornby farm. Winter rye was planted last fall, was “crimped” this spring, and then planted to soybeans. Roller-crimper ...

We can stop the climate crisis. At least, we can start reducing the 23% of global greenhouse gas emissions that the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently attributed to ...

This field day, hosted by Purdue Extension-Organic Agriculture, will provide an overview of Ramerview Holstein Farm, where the Ramer family manages a certified organic dairy, producing organic milk ...

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED AND THE EVENT IS AT CAPACITY. Join us for Indiana’s only conference focused on organic grain! The 2020 Indiana Organic Grain Farmer Meeting is scheduled for February 19-20, ...

Park, who has been farming for 48 years and is well-known for his soil health practices, is one of a small group of innovative organic vegetable producers working with the University of California ...