Brianna Powell

With more than two decades of experience using the System on his own farm, including a journey of stepping away and returning, Jim Yule brings valuable insight to the farmers he works with.

With an average annual rainfall of just ten inches, maintaining air-water balance in the soil is essential for farming success in northwest Montana. Jerry Philipps, a forward-thinking farmer from Conrad, Montana, has long been ahead of the curve. He adopted no-till farming in 1982 and later implemented the Maximum Farming System in 2007. A decade into using the System, Jerry participated in a government EQIP cover crop study that involved frequent soil testing. The study organizers were...

In Southern Illinois, the Wiegmann family runs a true generational farm, committed to building healthier soil for the future. For more than 15 years, they’ve utilized the Maximum Farming System to support their land—an investment in the sixth generation now being raised on the farm. “The home farm has been corn-on-corn for 12 years now and we are getting better yields than farmers corn-on-soybeans,” Maurice Wiegmann explains. “Even on a dry year, wet year, it doesn’t matter – it’s got all the...