Learn the difference between harmful and beneficial pests to help boost soil biology in conservation cropping systems.

Some of the best agronomic decisions Dean Sponheim has made on his north-central Iowa farm were driven by economics. In 1999, on one field, he began strip-tilling to reduce soil crusting, which led to ...

This field day aims to equip attendees with best management practices for establishing and managing cover crops as an ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

Human activities such as intensive farming and overgrazing are degrading soil nearly 1,000 times faster than natural processes. If this trend continues, global food production could drop by 10% by ...