Ohio farmer Jerry McBride is a long-time advocate for conservation, and shares how his involvement on his local Soil and Water Conservation District board inspired him to lead by example in his own operation.…

Bill Kellogg walks through the conservation practices he and his son use on their farm to improve soil health and protect water quality.…

See how Ohio farmerJeff Duling terminates cover crops at just the right time, and walks through the 12-month decision-making process of cover crops, including herbicide choices, planting green into rye, and managing residue and standability in no-till systems.…

See how Ohio farmer Aaron Heilers approaches cover crops, planting, soil health, and more.…

Ohio farmers walk through their approaches to terminating fall-planted cover crops in the spring, whether they’re planting green or spraying.…

Ohio farmers explain their methods for fall seeding cover crops, utilizing various tools to plant cereal rye efficiently and protect their soil throughout the winter.…

Thinking about cover crops? Here’s how one Ohio farmer makes summer decisions to plant cover crops in the fall. From choosing a seed mix to timing aerial seeding with drones or planes, cover crops involve planning ahead. …

Kevin Thierry of Fulton County Ohio explains the mechanics and setup of his strip-till equipment outfitted with a fertilizer tank to fulfill his needs of placing fertilizer in the ground where needed for best plant uptake while also strip-tilling to clear the soil of debris in one pass.…

Wanting to place fertilizer when and where needed most, Austin Heil of Heil Farms in Hardin County, Ohio, retrofitted his own equipment to be able to economically apply fertilizer under the soil profile and between corn rows.…

Jan Layman of Layman Farms in Hardin County, Ohio discusses the equipment used for subsurface nutrient placement and what they’ve found to be the least expensive and most efficient with a sidedress machine and saddle tanks.…

Learn about what defines an Ohio wetland ecosystem – from hydric soils and hydrology to wetland plants and animals – in this video from USDA NRCS.…

Featuring Dr. Chad Penn and a team of engineers and technicians. P-TRAP is free software developed by the USDA ARS allowing non-engineers to design and build P filters, which can significantly decrease phosphorus runoff from farm fields, reducing harmful surface water eutrophication and algal blooms, as demon…