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Illinois Family Works Strip-Till into Regenerative System

The Riskedal family are combining the best of both worlds with strip-till and regenerative practices on their corn, soybean, wheat and cattle operation in Leland, Ill. “We started using strip-till in 2019, and with the process of switching to reduced till, less chemicals and adding cover crops, now we can go in the field and find earthworms in any ball of roots we pull up,” Brad Riskedal tells AgriNews. “We couldn’t find them before.”

Riskedals cheking on cattle

Source: AgriNews/Martha Blum

Farmer Switches to Strip-Till After 40 Years of Conventional Tillage

@BigAgRuinsAg shared on X that they’re bucking the local trend after 40-plus years of “turning the soil black.” 

Strip-Tilled field

Strip-Tiller Shares Benefits of Conservation Practices

Putnam County, Ind., strip-tiller Paul Hodgen describes how a combination of grassed waterways, filter strips and strip-till helped keep everything in place after a massive rain event recently. “We have filter strips designed to capture sediment and keep the nutrients on the farm before it enters nearby streams,” he says. “The field next to the filter strip has minimum tillage. A recent heavy rain event washed away some corn stalks, but it took very little soil. Even though there was a channel flowing in that area because of excess rainfall, there was very little soil loss or scarring because of the conservation tillage practice we deployed here.” 

Paul Hodgen in front of field

Source: Indiana Corn Marketing Council and Indiana Soybean Alliance

Strip-Tiller Gets Creative with First Toolbar

2025 Strip-Till Innovator Ray Flickner and his son Ryan provide an up-close at their first strip-till toolbar. Ryan and Ray explain why they became early adopters of strip-till in the Moundridge, Kan., area, and detail some of their best practices. 

Strip-Tiller Thriving Despite Challenging May

Strip-tiller Carson Klosterman checks in with a #Plant25 update in this Farm & Ranch Guide multi-part feature. The weather was up and down in May, with a few days of unseasonably hot and windy weather followed by cooler days with steady rainfall. His sugar beets are holding up well so far. “If a beet doesn’t have protection, it will almost look like a helicopter,” Klosterman says. “Three blades, three leaves and they’ll spin themselves over the ground. In our strip-till fields, we kind of rely on the last year’s stubble standing high to block the wind a little bit.” 

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