The reality of changing soil conditions and varying crop needs often requires more middle ground than most tillage systems are designed to deliver.

As farmers gather the bounty of one crop their minds are thinking about the next one. For some, that starts with a tillage game plan. “I would first ask: Why do I need tillage? And why do fall tillage ...

RENVILLE - It doesn't matter whether she's grubbing around in farm fields or road ditches, or peering from the relative comfort of a tractor cab. The information that Jodi DeJong-Hughes of the ...

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 ...

Extra-deep tillage isn't recommended in southern Minnesota, says Gyles Randall, soil scientist with the Southern Research and Outreach Center in Waseca. Corn and soybean production and profitability ...