No Til Notes: 'Path to Soil Health, Part 2'

The path to soil health has many stops along the way to obtaining a live, vibrant, functioning soil. Each of us will find a resting point along this pathway and may settle into a comfortable spot along the way. I think it is very encouraging that those of us in production agriculture are even thinking and talking about our journey down the path to soil health.

Our farm’s journey began many years ago and we didn’t even know it at the time. We switched our operation from a conventionally tilled crop production system to a no-till crop production system to add profitability to our operation. Soil...