This Week's Lineup:

• A Year in the Life of a Strip-Tiller
• Rookie Strip-Tiller Gets Big Help from Precision Specialist on Planting Day 1
• The Fertilizer Fallacy: Yields Up, Profits Down
• Breaking Down the Use of Sugars in Crops
• Strip-Tiller Details Journey with Cover Crops

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This Week's Lineup:

• Using Insects as Indicators for Strip-Till Crop Health
• First Look at 2026 Strip-Till Conference Program
• Lower Nitrogen Rates Show Promise for Minnesota Strip-Tillers 
• Dave Hula & Randy Dowdy Share Tips for Improving Profitability
• Lord of the Rings Quote Represents Strip-Till Farmer Audience Well

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Managing editor Noah Newman checks in from Strip-Till Farmer headquarters with a big announcement about the 2026 National Strip-Tillage Conference program. 

Elk Point, S.D., custom strip-tiller shares lessons learned from thousands of acres covered in Iowa, Nebraska & South Dakota

This Week's Lineup:

• Discussing Potential Benefits of a Strip Freshener Pass
• Three Ways to Trim Inputs Without Trimming Yield
• Using Cover Crops in 3 Different Tillage Scenarios
• Illinois Strip-Tiller Shares Cover Crop Playbook
• Inside Jim Hershey’s Leopold Conservation Award-Winning Journey

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About 68% of strip-tillers are no-tilling some of their acres, according to our latest Strip-Till Farmer Benchmark Report. So, I figured there’d be at least some cross-over interest when I decided to add a “strip-till 101” classroom to January’s 2026 National No-Tillage Conference agenda.

This Week's Lineup:

• Harvest Ride-Along: Strip-Tiller Happy with Yields on Stubborn Soils
• On-Farm Research Yields Results for Alabama Strip-Tillers
• Navigating Poor Fall Conditions for Strip-Till
• Strip-Till Lessons Learned from the Northern Plains
• Strip-Till Liquid vs. Dry Fertilizer

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