Looking to experiment with different residue management options on his combine, Beaver Dam, Wis., strip-tiller Ryan Nell shares his experience with a chopping corn head and stalk stompers. In 2020, he took off the swapped out the stalk rolls on rows 7 and 8 of his 8-row corn head with John Deere’s RowMax chopping corn head rolls to eliminate the “windrow” residue effect in the field.

Ryan Nell's family farm has been using precision farming equipment since 1999 — when he was 13 years old. Today, he's part of an extended family cash grain and dairy operation near Beaver Dam, Wis., and they continue to fine-tune and leverage precision farming data to improve productivity on their operation.