[Video] Strip-Till Maverick: Proving ‘It Won’t Work Here’ Wrong

“I always joke that I’m in the capital city of ‘it don’t work here,’” says Jon Stevens, who has proven the naysayers wrong in the rocky soils of Rock Creek, Minn., with his implementation of strip-till, livestock and diverse crop rotations.

The innovative strip-tiller challenges tradition about commercial fertilizers and gives attendees an unfiltered — and highly entertaining — look at his systematic approach to enhancing his strip-till system with cattle and cover crops. Stevens also puts his latest on-farm experiments under the microscope for all to see, and to illustrate how profitability rarely equates to being the highest yielder.

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