It never fails that once a plan comes together that there's a new twist. After a few weeks of talking about cover crop options on prevented planting...

Soil health is moving forward so quickly that much of the effectiveness of practices is based on observation. Don't get me wrong, I spend a lot...

We just held the 14th Annual Conservation Tillage Conference jointly hosted by North Dakota State University Extension and University of Minnesota...

With the Thanksgiving holiday still fresh in our minds, it's a good opportunity to recognize functions that a soil health system provides. To...

With soil health, it is rare that a single tool (or management approach) will help fully do the job. If we are looking to achieve on-farm goals,...

I was recently part of a reunion of board members from the first 10 years of the ManDak Zero Tillage Farmers Association. What this means is...

If you've been to a soil health meeting where Lee Briese (Independent Crop Consultant with Centrol Ag) presented you'll hear him make the statement,...

By mid-September, options for seeding cover crops in the Northern Plains become more limited and in some cases seeding rates need to be bumped...

How should you choose cover crops? First, determine a goal for using the cover crops. What do you want to do? Once the goal is identified, then...

Wheat harvest (and harvest for other short season crops) is full speed ahead. With the early harvest, some of you may be thinking about seeding...

Earthworms are a great indicator of soil health and are easy to look for in the field. In North Dakota, we have about a dozen species of earthworms...

This past week, water infiltration and runoff were topics in the Soil Health Minute segment on AgWeekTV. These terms are used often when talking...