By the Growing Resilience Team When we posted a video of Dr. Dwayne Beck explaining how tillage destroys soil structure and reduces infiltration, we expected a little pushback—but not hundreds of comments. What followed was one of our most active conversations yet, with producers from across the region offering both challenges and praise. It confirmed something we already suspected: There’s no one-size-fits-all answer when it comes to tillage and yield. So, we did what we alw

By: the Growing Resilience Team A couple of weeks ago, we shared two posts that lit up our social media channels like never before. The topic? You guessed it: tillage. The first post was a short but controversial video of Dakota Lake Research Farm’s Dr. Dwayne Beck saying: “Grandpa had more organic matter than you do. All tillage tools destroy soil structure. All tillage tools decrease water infiltration… All tillage tools reduce organic matter…” The second was a graphic

Photo Credit: By Joe Dickie In western South Dakota, where the prairie stretches wide and the wind speaks in long, slow sentences,...