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Leading With Experience: Nitrate Reduction Strategies

By Martha Mintz posted on April 25, 2026 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health

For me, adoption of some conservation practices took a little nudge from nature.

Cover Crop Impact: Forty Years of Less Tillage, More Plants

By Martha Mintz posted on March 28, 2026 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health

Tiling and cover crops help remediate unproductive saline seeps.

Mike Lessiter Luncheon Keynote Presentation from 2025 NACD Summer Meeting

July 28, 2025 | Posted in Investing in Regenerative Ag, Seeding Practices, Soil Health

Cover Crop Strategies' Mike Lessiter spoke on the key elements of no-till history and why it’s a blueprint for future change. He also examined critical success factors needed to sustain and grow the practices, and the key role of conservation districts in making successful transitions and adoption a reality.

Learn From Conservation Leaders at NACD Summer Meeting

June 19, 2025

Cover Crop Strategies' Mike Lessiter is the Luncheon keynote speaker at this year's event.

International No-Till, Strip-Till and Cover Crops Research Journal – September 2024

Each month, the conservation ag group at Cornell University offers an analysis of the latest scientific papers dealing with conservation agriculture research from around the world. For this on-going web series, our editors will be selecting several research papers from the Cornell list that will be of special interest to North American no-tillers, strip-tillers and cover croppers.

By Frank Lessiter posted on September 11, 2024 | Posted in Soil Health

In this edition:

Earthworms as Soil Health Indicators in No-Tillage Agroecosystems
No-Till Farming and Climate Change Mitigation: Lessons Learnt from Long-Term No-Till Experiments and Future Perspectives (Chapter 2)
The Impact of ‘T’-shaped Furrow Opener of No-Tillage Seeder on Straw and Soil Based on Discrete Element Method
Characterization of Soil Pores in Strip-Tilled and Conventionally-Tilled Soil Using X-ray Computed Tomography
Critical Review of the Impact of Cover Crops on Soil Properties
Understanding Farmers’ Adoption of Conservation Tillage in South Dakota: A Modified Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior

No-Till’s Johnny Appleseed

By Randall Reeder posted on September 4, 2024

When it comes to no-till, there is no bigger name than Frank Lessiter.

Why Cover Crops & Other Regenerative Ag Practices Are Catching On in Red States

In some conservative pockets of the U.S., farmers are embracing regenerative practices. Just don’t ask them to make it political.

By Eve Andrews posted on November 13, 2023 | Posted in Investing in Regenerative Ag, Soil Health

Source: Ambrook Research

In some conservative pockets of the U.S., farmers are embracing regenerative practices. Just don’t ask them to make it political.

Remembering Dave Brandt

By Mackane Vogel posted on May 22, 2023

No-Till Legend Dave Brandt of Carroll, Ohio, died unexpectedly over the weekend as a result of injuries from a severe car crash. In honor of the late no-till and cover crop legend, we have compiled a list of videos, podcasts and articles that have been featured on the Cover Crop Strategies website over the last 15 years that feature Dave Brandt and help to illustrate the enormous impact he had on the regenerative farming community and beyond.

Farmers in Montana Adopting Cover Crops, Other Practices

June 1, 2020 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: Sidney Herald

Advanced conservation practices are used on more than 50 percent of farmland across the nation. Conrad, MT, wheat farmer Ken Johnson explained how he works to reduce erosion on their family farm. Read more in this article from the Sidney Herald.

The Connection Between Flooding & Farming Methods

Scientists say there's a way to at least decrease the amount of damage natural disasters can do and it all starts in the farm fields.

June 21, 2019 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health

Source: KAKE

“We have to work with nature, we can't fight it,” Doug Hisken, a Belle Plaine, KS, area farmer said about this year’s overly wet weather leading to flooding problems across much of the state.