Frank Lessiter

3 days ago | americanfarriers.com | Frank Lessiter

Plenty of the farriers attending the annual International Hoof-Care Summit (IHCS) buy products at the world’s largest footcare trade show and carry them home. But nobody comes close to the journey taken by Australian farrier Neville Wright. The now deceased Australian farrier from Bobinawarrah in the state Victoria, was a five-time IHCS attendee between 2004 and 2014, choosing to attend every second year during this time span.

3 days ago | no-tillfarmer.com | Frank Lessiter

Effects of Conservation Agriculture on Soil Nitrogen Oxide N2O Emissions and Crop Yield in Global Cereal Cropping SystemsZhu, Y., Li, Z., Zhao, D., Zhang, B., Zhu, B., Yao, Z., Kiese, R., Butterbach-Bahl, K. & Zhou, M. 2025. Global Change Biology. 31 (1) Article e70048.

4 days ago | no-tillfarmer.com | Frank Lessiter

The 2025 Glyphosate Report Card: Some Good, Some Bad By Eric SfiligojPublished May 21, 2025 on CropLifeAs the calendar gets ready to turn to June, school children across the country are anticipating what their final report cards will look like. In this spirit, let’s consider how the 2024-25 report card looks for glyphosate. Overall, it’s been a mix of positive and negative grades for one of agriculture’s most popular herbicides. First, let’s look at some of the failing grades.

1 week ago | no-tillfarmer.com | Frank Lessiter

For years, a few farmers have questioned whether doing a single year of tillage with continuous no-till is a good idea. Based on many years of successful experience by no-tillers, that’s turned into a “no-no” for lots of growers. Yet in some semi-arid environments such as western Kansas, doing continuous no-till has become increasingly challenging due to a lack of herbicide options for difficult-to-control and herbicide-resistance weeds.

2 weeks ago | no-tillfarmer.com | Frank Lessiter

Australian Federal Court Ends All Roundup Litigation — Could It Happen Here? By Dennis Rudat, Farm News MediaPublished January 14, 2025The Federal Court of Australia has brought an end to the last Roundup case in that country, closing all pending injury litigation cases there against Bayer, citing a prior 322-page ruling that scientific evidence does not support a link between glyphosate and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). In a Dec.