A few weeks ago I visited my home state of Maryland and had the chance to chat with Finksburg, Md., no-tiller and soybean yield champ Chris Weaver. Check out this clip as he introduces himself and his farm while giving you a sneak peak of his upcoming presentation at the 35th annual National No-Tillage Conference in Indianapolis this coming winter. 

“I'm Chris Weaver. I'm a six generation farmer from Finksburg, Maryland. Been no-tilling my whole farming career. Dad started in 1986. We're here at our cattle feed lot where we feed cattle out for our freezer business where we actually sell fresh meat right from the farm as well as other beef that we raise for local butcher shops. I'm very big and everything has to be farm to table and knowing where everything's grown. With that being said, in 2025, we set another world record in soybean production of over 155 bushel beans. We're coming this year to the no-till conference to talk to other no-till farmers and everything that we're doing to try to get ahead from our corn planter and the maintenance that we're doing and how we have our planters set up. How we're doing infer applications on beans, what is right and what's wrong, how to reduce salt from fertility.”

“What plant population's right for your soil types? As well as how many times are we going across the field? Does it really matter? We'll get into that hard discussion as well as herbicide passes have be herbicide and foliar passes should be foliar passes. That is one of the big things we're going to talk about. When's the right time to apply a fungicide? We're going to get down into the depths of how have we been successful no-till farming for not just 10 years but for a couple generations now and what else are we looking at to get us further ahead in the future? My goal is to be the first guy to 200 bushel no-till non-irrigated soybeans. I think we're on the way to success and we hope to get there in the next few years. So please come out to the no-till conference, be more than glad to sit down and chat with you, bring your soil samples, bring any information you want. We'll sit down and we'll look at it. We'll come up with an on- farm approach like we've done here on this operation.”

Be sure to head to no-tillfarmer.com/nntc and register for the National No-Tillage Conference so you can hear Chris Weaver’s presentation as well as dozens of other great speakers sharing their knowledge of no-till, cover crops and much more.