TAS Agro has switched to deep loosening, vertical tillage, and planting rapeseed and wheat using strip-till technology.

"I’m strip-tilling into cornstalks, driving on the old rows and it’s chewing up my tires. 18.4-42s aren’t cheap. Cornstalks are extra dry and breaking off just above ground level. Any ideas?"

Strip-till experts Mike Petersen and Mick Goedeken analyze the concentrated placement of fertilizer from a soil pit near Polk, Neb.

How can you, the farm manager, help your landowners understand the impacts of lower prices and high input costs on profits? Michigan State University Extension shares some ideas.

Agronomist Jason Webster checks in from the Precision Planting PTI Farm in Pontiac, Ill., with results from a phantom yield loss study that compared corn hybrids harvested at 4 different moisture levels.

After enrolling with the Midwest Climate-Smart Commodity Program, Bryan Biegler put the financial assistance to good use and made the jump from 100 acres of cover crops in 2022, to covering all 2,500 acres in 2023. He has also adopted strip-till practices throughout his farm and is looking to take the practice even further by adopting vertical tillage.