National Ag News

Illinois corn and soybean grower Jason Lay farms as if every day is Earth Day.  Lay strip tills corn and no-tills soybeans, plus he uses cover crops.  He says it’s for the sake of those who will farm the land after him.

“I only intend on doing this career for so many years and then it’s got to be left in, I would say, hopefully, better condition than when I took it over,” said Lay, during an interview with Brownfield Ag News, “so in order to do so, we’re going to have start to implement more practices and truly understand how do we make a soil better.”

Northern Indiana farmer Mike Long could see he was losing topsoil with every tillage pass he made. 

Continue reading Sustainable farming fits well with Earth Day theme at Brownfield Ag News.