Strip-Till Farmer editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at the grower's world from the lofty digital realm. Here is our favorite content from the past week from across the web:

Strip-Tiller Completes His 60th Harvest

FarmWeekNow.com features longtime strip-tiller John Werries, who just wrapped up his 60th harvest! The Morgan County, Ill., strip-tiller purchased his first strip-till bar at a farm show in the winter of 1995.

John Werries

Photo by Hannah Spangler

4 Ways to Make Anhydrous Applications More Effective

In his latest Boots in the Field Report, veteran agronomist Ken Ferrie helps strip-tillers get the most bang for their buck with anhydrous applications. “One trick to lessen the volatility is to decrease the rate of ammonia you’re putting on,” Ferrie says. “Lower rates need less water. But you’ll have to adjust the spring applications to square this rate back up. I know you retailers are cringing when I say that because this has been a bad year on shanks as a lot of guys are using the toolbars as subsoilers.”

Boots in the Field with Ken Ferrie

Photo by Lindsey Pound

Strip-Tiller Receives ‘Innovator in Production Research’ Award

National Strip-Tillage Conference speaker Robb Ewoldt was named the 2024 Iowa Soybean Association Innovator in Production Research award recipient. The award recognizes farmers who work to discover, validate and manage practices to improve soybean profitability. Ewoldt’s latest endeavor has been the design and implementation of a 15-inch row strip-till toolbar for soybeans. “We want to grow 15-inch beans, but how do you get the fertilizer in the right spot,” he asks. “We came up with this toolbar. And the hypothesis was when we went from no-till to strip-till corn, we had a 14% jump in yields. My thought was what if we could do that with beans and placing the fertilizer in the root zone. If we could do half of what we did with corn — 7% — that could be a 3-3.5 bushel per acre increase.”

Robb Ewoldt

Photo by Iowa Soybean Assicaition / Joclyn Bushman

‘Believe in What You’re Doing’ with Strip-Till

Manito, Ill., strip-tiller Opey Rowell shares his advice on carbon programs and shares his playbook for pairing strip-till with cover crops.

Building the Ideal Berms in Corn-on-Corn

Fennig Equipment’s Adam Fennig checks in with an up-close look at “beautiful” strips” made Nov. 8 with a Dawn Pluribus Lite on continuous corn fields and soybean stubble.

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