Each year the Klahns rotate on-farm yield, product and management tests through 4 adjacent 11-acre plots. Three are in corn and one is in soybeans allowing a 3-year set of strip-tilled corn production ahead of soybeans put in the fourth year behind a vertical tillage pass.

The new system allows farmers to apply both dry and liquid fertilizer in a single pass, giving them the freedom to source products from any retailer or supplier.

Andrew Reuschel always tells people he has about 50 years’ worth of farming knowledge and experience even though he’s only in his mid-30s.

The 3-year study compared conventional till broadcast, no-till broadcast and strip-till banded systems, and different application rates of MAP and potash with each system.

As Steve Frahm began adding acreage to his irrigated Ashland, Neb., farm more than a decade ago, one mounting challenge was finding the time and labor to continue ridge-tilling.

Farming 1,800 acres in south central Michigan, Ryan Groholske is accustomed to navigating rocky — though fertile — ground. Through long-term no-till practices, he’s been able to elevate organic matter content on some sandier soils to as much as 5%, while also creating a thriving habitat for earthworms.

Over the five generations the Delhotal family has farmed in West Brooklyn, Ill., it's been important for them to produce high quality crops while caring for the land in an environmentally sustainable way.