Instead of tilling or plowing the soil, no-till involves seeding through the prior crop’s standing residue. Weed control is accomplished primarily through herbicides. This spring marks 60 years of no-tillage farming since the first commercial crops were seeded via no-till in Kentucky in 1962. While the practice is known as no-till, zero-till or direct-seeding in North America, the global community favors a broader term of “Conservation Ag (CA).” In addition to minimal soil disturbance of…