Because no-till encourages the soil food web to become so active, fewer nutrients need be added, and only soils with deficiencies will require synthetic minerals, he said.

Kick grass to the curb! Turn your boring lawn into a beautiful garden with the easy and eco-friendly no-till method.

Lisa Blazure, soil health coordinator with Stroud Water Research Center, points out night crawler tunnels in the clay soil beneath Penn England Farm’s cornfield topsoil. Night crawlers are essential ...

The no-till farming method offers numerous environmental and economic benefits to everyone. No-till is a successful farming method with proven results since the 1960s.

No-till farming keeps precious top soil out of the river, and it protects groundwater, he said. "No-till farming can hold in the soil and still give you a good crop," Gehling said.

No-till farming methods increased for four crops in particular — corn, cotton, soybeans and rice — at a median rate of 1.5 percent per year from 2000 to 2007.

With much of the West either “abnormally dry” or in drought conditions, no-till farming advocates say that method could be a way to better utilize the water that’s available. No-till farming — also ...

Not only does it kill everything in the soil it ruins the soil structure causing a shift in the aggregate that does not allow for proper water absorption and risks runoff, and limits the space for ...

An even simpler No Till method is to put the cardboard or newspaper layer on top of the mowed vegetation. Top this with compost mix, and then add plants and mulch.

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Changing 60 years of farming one way to try the no-till method on his fields doesn't give Marshall wheat grower Boyd Cline second thoughts, but it does give him the willies."I'm ...

Tilling your garden can be helpful in certain situations but harmful in others. Tilling has both benefits and drawbacks when it comes to your soil. So should you till or not when preparing and ...