Building Your Soils with Livestock, Compost Extract and Biologicals

In the latest edition of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter Farm Equipment, former Conservation Ag Fellow and NNTC Outstanding Speaker Award winner Michael Thompson shares how he uses livestock, biologicals compost extract and hog manure to strengthen root systems, boost soil health and turn weaker acreage into beef on his Almena, Kan., farm.

An army of editors from No-Till Farmer attended the Farm Progress Show to find out what’s being talked about the industry and learn about the innovations that are shaping agriculture today. Listen in on conversations we had with manufacturers and industry influencers about innovations happening in the field, including insights about planting and crop protection, laser weeder systems, USDA data modernization efforts and more.

Probably more than you think, as veteran investor Warren Buffett stepped down on September 18 from leading one of the world’s largest investment group. Replacing him as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway is his son, Howard, a longtime member of the firm’s board of directors and an innovative self-thought Illinois no-tiller for 34 years.

When paying for high-priced diesel for fall harvest, no-tillers are in the same boat as neighbors still using intensive tillage. While nobody likes diesel prices that have soared to over $6 a gallon in recent weeks, no-tillers are definitely coming out ahead when you look at fuel needs for an entire cropping year.

On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Yetter Farm Equipment, Allen Dornacker shares the benefits of using drywall in his compost mix in West Bend, Wis.

On this special road edition of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Yetter Farm Equipment, the No-Till Farmer editorial team shares their top conservation ag takeaways and observations at the 2026 Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa.

In the latest edition of the No-Till Farmer podcast, Iowa State Univ. nematologist Greg Tylka shares the results of more than 2 decades of data collected by the university showing that soybean cyst nematode (SCN) continues to develop increased reproduction on PI 88788.

On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Yetter Farm Equipment, Planet Earth Agronomy co-founder Mitchell Fiene reveals a checklist for farmers to consider when shopping for biologicals.

Just like many other states, the mantra in Tennessee cotton country was that no-till wouldn’t work. But through many fields days and experiments at the Milan Ag Experiment Station and Milan No-Till Field Day, Univ. of Tennessee Agronomist John Bradley proved them wrong.

On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Yetter Farm Equipment, managing editors Noah Newman and Mackane Vogel report from the National Strip-Tillage Conference pre-conference workshop at the Bayer Crop Science Research Farm in New Berlin, Ill.