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How can the farm community lower its collective carbon footprint? But as Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue recently pointed out farmers have been working on that goal for some time. "Using techniques like cover crops, and no-till types of things that can capture that" Perdue noted during a webinar last week that farmers are not yet fully implementing some of these techniques ...

Last week we told you that new federal data shows farmers and ranchers continue to reduce agriculture’s per-unit greenhouse gas emissions. American Farm Bureau Federation Chief Economist John Newton said the U.S. Ag sector accounts for less emissions than the transportation, electricity generation and industrial sectors. ...

Specific farm conservation practices included in USDA programs provide land owners both environmental and economic incentives.   “About 80% of practices in the group that we looked at were completed as originally planned,” said USDA economic researcher Steve Wallander.   He note...

After a soggy, slow start to the season, 2017 for many no-till farmers is shaping up to be a good one.  Kay Meyer, Executive Director of the Pacific Northwest Direct Seed Association, said she’s hopeful.   “I think overall it’s a good year, the yields generally are strong and market pricing is starting to come back, so it’s not as detrimental or a serious of a situation as last year with such low

In the recent 25 year anniversary of “No Till Magazine”, four Northwest growers were honored as No Till Legends.  Regional winners include John Aeschliman of Colfax, who has been no-tilling since the mid-1970s, Spokane’s Dr. Jill Clapperton who h...

The number of growers across the Northwest that convert from conventional practices to no-till or low-till grows each season.  Kay Meyer, President of the Pacific Northwest Direct Seed Association, told the Washington Ag Network many growers are just crunching the numbers.  Sh...

Growers who are interested in learning more about no-till, strip-till, direct seed and other high residue farming strategies can take part in a WSU workshop Wednesday at Big Bend Community College.   Andrew McGuire will host the event and he said it’s important that farmers get all the information about potentially switching.   “...

The 25th annual No-Till Conference takes place in January and focuses on the progress and knowledge over the first quarter century of the event.   Among the speakers will be John Young who is the son of the first farmer to have a commercial no-till plot, plant ecologist J.C. C...