Over in Mt. Sterling, Ill., young farmer Wade Yingling and his dad, Bruce, are capturing success with strip-till and cover crops, with a little vertical tillage mixed in as well.
While some of you are just getting started, Tom Barcellos never stopped! It’s busy season 24/7/365 for the no-till pioneer in Tipton, Calif. He runs a big dairy operation, grows pistachios, citrus, strip-tills corn for silage and no-tills small grains.
This video comes to us from our good friend Chris Perkins in Otwell, Ind. When Noah Newman visited the Strip-Till Innovator a couple years ago, he wasn’t using cover crops. But Chris is an innovator because he’s always willing to try new things. Fast forward to 2026, he’s giving cover crops a try.
A couple years ago, Jason Webster, who manages the PTI Research Farm in Pontiac, Ill., was talking to a high yield corn grower, and he asked him, ‘Hey, what’s your secret sauce?’ The corn grower said, “That’s easy, it’s the chicken litter we’ve been applying the past 65 years.”
We caught up with Jeff Martin, who’s been strip-tilling in Mt. Pulaski, Ill., for decades. During our conversation we discovered he’s doing something very unique with biologicals.
The USDA launched a new $700 million pilot program to help more farmers adopt regenerative practices and support their transition to conservation ag. We were visiting with Cambridge, Ill., farmer Monte Bottens shortly after the news broke last week.
Let’s catch up now with our Conservation Ag Operator Fellow Michael Thompson out in Almena, Kan. In this video, Michael shows us how he’s using vermicompost to improve the root mass and resilience of his crops.
Let’s kick things off with some new economic data from the Precision Conservation Management program in Illinois. They’re comparing all the field passes in no-till, strip-till and multi-pass systems to see which one gives farmers the most bang for their buck.
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On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Yetter Farm Equipment, Greg and Janis Thoren share how they’re eliminating insecticides and fungicides on their Leopold Conservation Award-winning operation in Stockton, Ill.
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