Small town wheat farmers face major challenges. With rising costs and dwindling yields there are hundreds of family farms struggling just to make the checkbook balance. With food shortages becoming a greater threat every passing year, securing the livelihoods of the people who produce our food is a must. Farmers in America will face challenges…

There are and will always be challenges when growing wheat for the American farmer. Inthis essay, I would like to address two major challenges I have personally witnessed on ournortheast Oregon farm: erosion and water retention. One solution we use to address theseproblems is the use of no-till farming. No-till farming has minimal soil disturbance,…