In this No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Copperhead Ag, we welcome Frank Lessiter, Allen Berry, Allan Brooks, R.D. Wolheter, Bryan Von Holten, Scott Davidson, and Randall Reeder to reflect on the past 25 years of no-till learning.
May 16, 2019•45 min
In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Montag Manufacturing, we share a Q&A interview with senior editor John Dobberstein and Rob Myers, regional director of extension programs for Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE).
May 10, 2019•38 min
In this episode of the No-Till Farmer Influencers & Innovators podcast, brought to you by Martin Industries, editor, Frank Lessiter, chats with the husband and wife team of Charlie Hammer and Nancy Kavazanjian of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.
May 02, 2019•45 min
In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Montag Manufacturing, retired USDA soil scientist Don Reicosky outlines the connection between soil health principles and carbon management in the context of conservation agriculture and no-till farming.
Apr 23, 2019•45 min
In this episode of the No-Till Farmer Influencers & Innovations podcast, brought to you by Martin Industries, Frank Lessiter, chats with retired ag economist Howard Doster, who received a PhD in agricultural economics from The Ohio State University and began working at Purdue in 1968.
Apr 18, 2019•43 min
In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Montag Manufacturing, Casey Seymour of Moving Iron LLC sits down with Kristen Nichols of Hemp Industry Daily for an overview of the hemp industry and the opportunities in agriculture. Kristen has been covering the marijuana legalization movement since 2009 and wrote about Colorado’s first legal hemp harvest.
Apr 11, 2019•35 min
In this episode of the No-Till Farmer Influencers &Innovations podcast, brought to you by Martin Industries, editor, Frank Lessiter, chats with Canadian no-tiller and strip-tiller Brian Newcombe.
Apr 04, 2019•31 min
In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter Manufacturing, Lessiter Media president Mike Lessiter sits down for an exclusive one-on-one talk with the newly appointed 16th chief of the NRCS, Matthew Lohr.
Mar 21, 2019•32 min
In this episode of the “No-Till Farmer Influencers & Innovations” podcast, brought to you by Ingersoll & Agrisolutions, Frank Lessiter sits down at the 2019 National No-Tillage Conference with Allen Brooks, a pioneering no-till vegetable farmer from Wisconsin.
Mar 14, 2019•28 min
In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter Manufacturing, we are joined by longtime no-tiller Jan Layman, who shares the economic payoffs he’s gained as a result of diversifying the operations on his 4,800-acre Kenton, Ohio, farm.
Mar 07, 2019•36 min
In this episode of the “No-Till Farmer Influencers & Innovations” podcast, brought to you by Ingersoll & Agrisolutions, Frank Lessiter chats with Phil Needham, owner of Needham Ag Technologies.
Mar 01, 2019•43 min
In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter Manufacturing, we share excerpts from our conversations at the National Farm Machinery Show, where manufacturers and farmers shared their advice, challenges and outlooks for the organic farming market.
Feb 22, 2019•37 min
In this episode of the “No-Till Farmer Influencers & Innovations” podcast, brought to you courtesy of Ingersoll & Agrisolutions, Frank Lessiter chats with John Aeschliman who no-tills on the steep slopes of the Palouse area of Washington State.
Feb 15, 2019•50 min
In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter Manufacturing, we’re pleased to share excerpts from Abbey Wick’s conversation with Tony Kramer on the RDO Equipment Co. Agriculture Technology Podcast. Tony and Abbey discuss defining soil health, cover cropping strategies, and the value of strip-till to retain moisture and size residue.
Feb 08, 2019•23 min
In this episode of the “No-Till Farmer Influencers & Innovations” podcast, brought to you courtesy of Ingersoll & Agrisolutions, Frank Lessiter chats with long-time West Virginia no-tiller, Mike Wolpert.
Jan 31, 2019•34 min
In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter Manufacturing, we are joined by Carl Bradley, plant pathologist at the University of Kentucky, to discuss how no-tillers can stay ahead of new disease pressure and further development of resistant diseases.
Jan 24, 2019•46 min
For this first “official” episode of the all-new “No-Till Farmer Influencers & Innovations” podcast, Mike Lessiter interviews his dad, Frank Lessiter, on the roots of no-till and conservation tillage farming.
Jan 18, 2019•34 min
In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter Manufacturing, we're joined by no-tiller and on-farm research coordinator for the University of Wisconsin, Jim Leverich, to discuss a three-part plan that could help you boost soil productivity and allow crops to access nutrients more efficiently.
Jan 09, 2019•44 min
In premiere this episode of the new No-Till Farmer podcast, Influencers & Innovations brought to you by Ingersoll & AgriSolution, Frank Lessiter will talk about why no-till is still as important today as it was 45 years ago.
Jan 03, 2019•12 min
In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter Manufacturing, we're joined by experimental plant ecologist J.C. Cahill from the University of Alberta to discuss root movement and foraging.
Dec 27, 2018•52 min
In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter Manufacturing, we're joined by University of Illinois crop physiology research assistant Alison Vogel who will discuss how accelerating residue degradation and nutrient cycling is necessary to maximize yield potential when no-tilling continuous corn.
Dec 14, 2018•45 min
In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter Manufacturing, we're joined no-tiller Darren Grogan, who he shares how the family’s irrigation and drainage program helps them control their water supply. Darren will also discuss improvements his family made in precision technology that has improved nitrogen-use efficiency and increased yields.
Nov 21, 2018•17 min
In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter Manufacturing, we're joined by co-director of the University of Wisconsin’s Discovery Farms program Amber Radatz who will share on-farm data from more than 200 site years in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Nov 09, 2018•37 min
In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter Manufacturing, we're joined by Adam Daugherty who will discuss planting logistics when no-tillers are seeding cover crop mixes, including the pros and cons of different tools available to get seed in the ground.
Oct 25, 2018•44 min
In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter Manufacturing, we continue the conversation with selected excerpts from our roundtable conversation from the 4th annual National Strip-Tillage Conference in Omaha, starting with some insight on influential factors in making precision farming purchases.
Oct 11, 2018•43 min
In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Calmer Corn Heads, we share selected excerpts from our roundtable conversation from the 4th annual National Strip-Tillage Conference in Omaha, touching on defining precision objectives and early payback.
Sep 27, 2018•44 min
In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Calmer Corn Heads, we're discussing healthy soils and diverse organisms with Dennis Chessman, the team leader for the NRCS Soil Health Division in Lexington, Ky.
Sep 14, 2018•42 min
In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Calmer Corn Heads, we continue our discussion with John Grove, director of the University of Kentucky Research and Education Center, shifting focus to nutrient management after crops have emerged.
Aug 23, 2018•37 min
In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Calmer Corn Heads, we welcome John Grove, director of the University of Kentucky Research and Education Center, to discuss the unique characteristics of no-till soil environments when compared to soils on conventionally tilled farms and how those can affect the availability of nutrients to plants.
Aug 09, 2018•38 min
In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Calmer Corn Heads, we welcome Damon Reabe, aerial cover crop applicator and co-owner of Dairyland Aviation from Waupun, Wis., to explain the necessary steps to ensure a successful cover crop stand, including the best timing of application and what soils have the greatest success rate.
Jul 26, 2018•48 min