Frank Lessiter Inducted into CTIC Hall of Fame

Editor Frank Lessiter was surprised with more Hall of Fame hardware from the Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC) at the 2023 annual meeting and farm tour in Frankenmuth, MI.

Frank Lessiter has served as editor of No-Till Farmer for 51 years, since the publication was launched in 1972. He and his wife, Pam, acquired No-Till Farmer and established Lessiter Media in Brookfield, Wis., to acquire the magazine in 1981. Today, the 40-person company also publishes Strip-Till Farmer and Cover Crop Strategies, and has run the National No-Tillage Conference since 1993.

The Conservation in Action tour is a homecoming for Lessiter, who was raised on a 6-generation Michigan Centennial Farm in Lake Orion, Mich., which he and his son Mike visited the week of the award ceremony. Lessiter is a dairy science graduate from Michigan State University.

Lessiter’s contributions to conservation ag’s adoption are profound. He and his publications were instrumental in disseminating the practical farmer-to-farmer knowledge necessary for no-till to grow 33-fold to the 110 million acres today in the U.S. alone.

Source: StripTillFarmer.com