The evolution of vertical tillage tools has entered a new phase with the introduction of “hybrid” tillage tools. “Hybrid tillage is almost the Holy Grail of tillage,” says Curt Davis, marketing ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Farmers should consider the short- and long-term effects of fall tillage on their fields and not just the effects of the drought on this year's crop, a Purdue Extension ...

Several reduced tillage practices include vertical-till, strip-till, zone-till, and no-till. Reducing tillage means exactly what you think — making fewer passes through the field and/or decreasing the ...

The wet fall has made harvest very challenging. Not only are farmers scratching their heads about how they are going to get in the field to harvest, they’re also wondering when they will have time to ...

Fall tillage decisions became a lot more complicated because of the heavy rains in September. Flooding and the prospects for another wet harvest season will make effectively using tillage to manage ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I first rode in a self-driving vehicle in 1991. Haven’t looked back. The OutRun suite of tillage products is taking on one of the ...

SHELL ROCK -- Plumes of black diesel exhaust can still be seen wafting over Northeast Iowa fields, but combines aren't producing it. Monday's U.S. Department of Agriculture Crops and Weather Report -- ...

Tillage is often seen as the organic alternative to chemical weed control. Tillage can be very effective at reducing weed populations, but can it be embraced as the solution to the weed problem? What ...