Strip-Till Farmer editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at the grower's world from the lofty digital realm. Here is our favorite content from the past week from across the web:
- Cover Crops & Strip-Till: Perfect Marriage?
- 4 Ways to Get the Most Bang for Your Buck with Nitrogen
- Third-Generation Farmer Saves Topsoil with Strip-Till
- A New Way to Roll Cover Crops
- An Up-Close Look at Strip-Till Nutrient Placement
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Cover Crops & Strip-Till: Perfect Marriage?
Alpha, Ill., strip-tiller Marion Calmer shares some of his top takeaways from another season of independent on-farm research, including his usage of cover crops with strip-till. “Cover crops have a lot of advantages. Strip-till has a lot of advantages. Let’s marry the two of them together.” Calmer will dive into his strip-till/cover crop system during a presentation at the National Strip-Till Conference, coming up Aug. 6-7 in Springfield, Ill.
4 Ways to Get the Most Bang for Your Buck with Nitrogen
The Univ. of Illinois Crop Physiology Lab dream team of Fred Below and Connor Sible reveal 4 nitrogen timing tips to maximize yields this growing season. “The key is peak uptake. Your crop doesn’t need the same amount of nutrients every day. There’s a short window when demand spikes, and that’s what really drives yield,” Sible says.
Source: Lindsey Pound
Third-Generation Farmer Saves Topsoil with Strip-Till
Saving “precious topsoil” is a big reason why Josh Weber strip-tills in Ontario, as he illustrates in this photo shared on X.
Great illustration of why we adopted strip till.. neighbours carrot ground/conventional corn blowing away precious topsoil.. pic.twitter.com/kdH2UxrVj7
— Josh Weber (@WeberFarmsLTD) May 3, 2026
A New Way to Roll Cover Crops
Cover Crop Legend Steve Groff puts a smile on our face with this video of a human (with a dress shirt and khakis) roller-crimper!
I have seen dozens of cover crop rollers over the past 30 years. But this is a first! Kudos to Bill, the flax man, for trying this out in his garden! pic.twitter.com/70NJd6Ri7H
— Steve Groff (@CoverCropCoach) April 19, 2026
An Up-Close Look at Strip-Till Nutrient Placement
Here’s one from a couple of years ago that popped up on our YouTube feed. Mike Pribyl checks in from the Fox Demo Farms with an up-close look at a strip-till rig in action and how it can be used to apply nutrients.
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