Use a vertical tillage leveling tool to prepare the seedbed next spring ahead of planting. This tool should not move soil sideways, and it should run no more than 3" deep.

Vertical tillage is not a single tool or a single pass — it is a comprehensive system, says Ken Ferrie. Through the Farm Journal Test Plot program and Ferrie’s experience in hundreds of ...

Recent dust storms in Illinois have raised the question of the cause of the events. In the past few years, the dust events ...