Technology Editor Noah Newman checks in from Iowa City with a preview of the 2025 National Strip-Tillage Conference, including exclusive insights from speakers on the program, a tour of the hotel and surrounding area, and a 1-on-1 interview with Iowa State’s Rebecca Vittetoe for a look at the pre-conference Strip-Till Field Day.

2025 Strip-Till Innovator Ray Flickner goes over his crop rotation and talks about the importance of having living roots year-round in his Moundridge, Kan., soils. Flickner also digs into the December-made strips to show how they’re holding moisture in a dry year, and he reveals his no. 1 challenge with strip-till.

The 8-part 2026 Strip-Till Farmer Strip-Till Innovator video series, brought to you by Case IH, showcases winner Robert Boyle of Coolidge, Ariz.

Let’s head out to Moundridge, Kan., now where 2025 Strip-Till Innovator Ray Flickner shows us how his corn’s holding up in dry conditions.

In case you missed them, here are the items that have garnered the most interest from other farmers in the past month, May 2025.

On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Yetter Farm Equipment, we’re headed inside CTIC’s Conservation in Action Tour in Sioux Falls, S.D., where a pair of conservation ag legends were inducted into the CTIC Hall of Fame.

The Farmer to Farmer Act would authorize the NRCS to enter into cooperative agreements with community-based organizations in each state that are able to identify and build on established and burgeoning peer-to-peer networks and create new ones.

The 6-part 2025 Strip-Till Farmer Strip-Till Innovator video series, brought to you by Land Luvr, showcases winner Ray Flickner of Moundridge, Kan.

Strip-Till Farmer editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at the grower's realm from the lofty digital realm. Here is our favorite content from the past week from across the web. The Best of the Web series is brought to you by Yetter Farm Equipment.

The Department of Health and Human Services touted the 68-page report generated by a presidential commission as “exposing a range of contributing factors” in childhood chronic disease, including poor diet, accumulation of “environmental toxins,” inadequate physical activity, chronic stress and overmedicalization.”