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How Does Your Strip-Till Operation Stack Up to Others in 2025?

It’s that time once again to see how your farm stacks up to others with our 12th annual Strip-Till Operational Benchmark Study. Since the industry-first survey launched in 2013, your average strip-tilled corn yields have gone up — from 184 to 205 — and so have our questions — from 30 to over 130!


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David Hula Shares Keys to High Strip-Till Yields

Record-breaking formula consists of balanced nutrition & on-farm experimentation
Charles City, Va., strip-tiller David Hula recently captured his 13th NCGA High Yield Contest title with a 490-bushel yield in the strip-till irrigated class — nothing new for the third-generation farmer, who remains the only one to break the 600-bushel mark (2019, 2021 and 2023).
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8 Steps to Long-Term Strip-Till Success

Alan Madison’s checklist includes cereal rye, high-rate strips, in-season chlorophyll testing & early harvests
Take one look at Alan Madison’s office wall — covered with high-yield contest plaques, awards and honors — and you can immediately tell he’s been on the cutting edge of conservation ag for quite some time.
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Shining a Light on Better Corn, Soybean Management

Beck’s Practical Farm Research puts equipment, planting practices & crop protection products to the test at multiple sites

Each year, Atlanta, Ind.-based Beck’s Hybrids puts out one of the most comprehensive books on ag research centered around the company’s Practical Farm Research (PFR) program. 


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[Podcast] First-Generation Strip-Tiller Unlocks Multiple Cover Crop Benefits

On this edition of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Environmental Tillage Systems, first-generation strip-tiller James Hepp takes us inside his operation in Rockwell City, Iowa.
On this edition of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Environmental Tillage Systems, first-generation strip-tiller James Hepp takes us inside his operation in Rockwell City, Iowa.
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Strip-Till Farmer delivers a mix of features on strip-till farmers, strip-till management topics and trending practices in strip-till. This FREE quarterly print newsletter is available to qualified subscribers in the U.S. and Canada. 
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