2024 Strip-Till Innovator Chris Perkins shares some of his strip-till strategies with fellow strip-tiller Harold Crawford, who also works as a territory manager for Montag. Perkins and Crawford discuss the potential benefits and challenges of strip-tilled soybeans, high plant populations, the origin story of Perkins’ banded system, and more!

As 2024 Strip-Till Innovator Chris Perkins visits with fellow strip-tiller Harold Crawford, who also works as a territory manager for Montag, a conversation about cover crops comes up. Crawford asks Perkins if he’s considered using cover crops on his Otwell, Ind., farm. Perkins isn’t currently using cover crops but explains why he hasn’t completely ruled out adding them to his arsenal in the future.

On top of running his family farm, 2024 Strip-Till Innovator Chris Perkins owns and operates Banded Ag, an ag research, consulting and custom application business that’s grown to over 10,000 custom spring strip-till acres in Indiana and Kentucky. A quarterback is only as good as his teammates, and Perkins gives most of the credit to his 6 full-time employees as he reflects on the impact they’ve made in the region since 2017.

2024 Strip-Till Innovator Chris Perkins takes us inside his Otwell, Ind., office. Perkins explains the significance of the vintage DeKalb bags hanging on his walls, and why each bag represents a key moment in his strip-till journey. Perkins also shares his 4 keys to growing a 300-bushel corn crop.

A reader in the Strip-Till Farmer email discussion group is thinking about building a 6-row strip-till rig out of an old 6-row planter. The Michigan native aims to utilize the dry fertilizer boxes off the planter while running Rawson coulters to make strips.

In case you missed them, here are the items that have garnered the most interest from other farmers in the past month, June 2024.