The evolution of vertical tillage tools has entered a new phase with the introduction of “hybrid” tillage tools. “Hybrid tillage is almost the Holy Grail of tillage,” says Curt Davis ...

Simply put, a vertical system means managing the entire soil profile for uniformity. Vertical tillage tools have deep-digging shanks that break up compacted layers of soil, eliminating the density ...

Nichols Tillage Tools, front row, left to right; Joe Nichol’s, Glenna Phelps- Aurich and Micaela Ladd with the Logan County Chamber of Commerce, and Rob Nichols. Nichol’s Tillage Tools began ...

In this way, a small patch can become a general problem. Tillage favors some species over others, and thus is one of the management tools that can be used to alter weed communities. Tillage is not ...

Thankfully Storm Éowyn passed without much damage to my farm, but it did focus my mind on climate change. It was the biggest storm in my lifetime, and these weather events seem to be getting ...