Rock Creek, Minn., farmer Jon Stevens kicked off his relentless pursuit for healthy soils a decade ago when he ditched conventional tillage for strip-till. Since then, his “mad scientist” approach to regenerative agriculture has generated a massive following for Maple Grove Farms in the strip-till community and beyond.

Steve Tesarik has built strip-till rigs for a number of configurations, including 15-, 20-, and 30-inch rows as well as twin-row fields. The veteran strip-tiller who farms corn for silage, soybeans and wheat with his son, Alex, in Whitelaw, Wis., takes pride in making modifications with a purpose and understanding not just the how and what of strip-till toolbar setup, but also the why.

Get the inside scoop on the latest strip-till trials at Precision Planting’s Precision Technology Institute (PTI) Farm. In this deep-dive session, PTI Farm Manager Jason Webster shares the 2022 plot results and explains how you can personally apply what his agronomic team has learned from 400-plus acres of research trials.

Strip-tiller Brad Hobelmann discusses how the Laforge DynaTrac has helped him overcome sidehill draft and control the planter to within 1 inch of strips and fertilizer.

Carbon sequestration and carbon markets are the latest buzz in agriculture, and yet carbon is not an inert substance that goes in the ground and just stays there. It’s actually part of the carbon cycle and involves the entire soil microbial community, decomposition and nutrient uptake.

How do you increase yield potential and ROI without increasing inputs? With nitrogen, diesel & weed control chemicals, we farmers are heavily invested in crop performance. But costs are getting out of hand and waste continues to be a problem.

Charles Martin and Andrew Bowman farm near each other outside of Oneida, Ill., in the northwest portion of the state. Both have done on-farm and development research research trials to identify more sustainable farming practices.

The recent shortage and climbing prices of glyphosate and other commonly used weed control products has many growers searching for alternative products and crop protection practices for 2022 and beyond. Get an insider’s perspective on the current supply chain challenges in crop protection and fertilizer, how best to navigate the lack of supply, and tips for making the best weed control and fertilizer decisions in the coming year

What you harvest at the end of the season is dependent on the attention given to the beginning. That starts with a crop fertility plan based on a complete soil analysis, says John Leif, Regional Sales Agronomist for AgroLiquid.

After much experimentation, Ryan Nell is seeing higher yields and more consistent results in his soybean fields. In fact, the Juneau, Wis., strip-tiller has moved his average soybean planting date up by a matter of weeks.