Shared by David Frabotta, manager of climate-smart ag interactive programming, Trust In Food: The American Soybean Association (ASA) presented Wayne and Ruth Fredericks from Osage, Iowa, with the 2022 National Conservation Legacy Award for the farm's large-scale implementation of no-till planting and cover crops, which have reduced weed pressure, created healthier soils that are more resilient in dry weather and improved yields. "Strip-till corn came about a decade after no-till. The technology evolved and showed very real promise for those of us farming in colder, wetter climates," Wayne Fredericks says. "I live and farm 'just south of the North Pole,' where many farmers believe it is too cold to practice no-till or to plant cover crops. I have proved them wrong."