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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
By Noah Newman posted on April 10, 2025 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming 101, Cover Crops, Equipment, Nutrient Management, Seeding & Planting
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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How I Save $768 Per Acre with Strip-Till & Cover Crops

Farmer takes ‘strip-till approach’ to water management with only 7 inches of rain annually, cuts down on equipment passes & inputs
By Noah Newman posted on April 7, 2025 | Posted in Cover Crops, Equipment, Precision Agriculture, Soil Health, Water Management
Robert Boyle is a self-proclaimed strip-till outlier in Coolidge, Ariz., where his 1,200-acre corn, cotton, alfalfa and dairy operation only gets about 7 inches of rain — if he’s lucky — and it often comes over the course of 2-3 storms.
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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.
By Noah Newman posted on April 4, 2025 | Posted in Cover Crops, Nutrient Management, Seeding & Planting
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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[Podcast] What I’ve Learned from 30 Years of Strip-Till

On this edition of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter Farm Equipment, longtime strip-tiller Alan Madison shares his 8 keys to strip-till success and reveals the top takeaways from decades of on-farm trials in Walnut, Ill.
By Noah Newman posted on March 20, 2025 | Posted in Cover Crops, Nutrient Management, Seeding & Planting
On this edition of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter Farm Equipment, longtime strip-tiller Alan Madison shares his 8 keys to strip-till success and reveals the top takeaways from decades of on-farm trials in Walnut, Ill. 
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6 Lessons Learned from NNTC ‘25

Nitrogen management, biologicals, landlord relationships, micronutrients & cost of erosion among hot topics at 2025 conference
By John Dobberstein posted on February 4, 2025 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Soil Health
More than 600 of the most innovative farmers in North America and around the globe came together in Louisville, Ky., for the 33rd annual National No-Tillage Conference (NNTC) to take in knowledge of cutting-edge production practices and recharge for the coming growing year.
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Cereal Rye 101: Fall Seeding Tips

October 3, 2024 | Posted in Cover Crops
Source: Kansas State Extension
Fall-seeded cereal rye can be established successfully following the application of most herbicides used in corn production, but success is influenced by herbicide rate and environmental conditions that follow the herbicide application.
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Strip-Till Standpoint

Learning from the Past to Move Strip-Till Forward

With benefits that include the precision placement of nutrients, strip-till practices established in the 1970s are being pushed to greater degrees of success today.
By Mike Petersen posted on August 15, 2023 | Posted in Nutrient Management
"As a soil scientist, I really started as a 5-year-old digging underneath the ash trees on our farm, looking to see what was going on underneath the soil. When I completed the work I did for Bayer Crop Sciences in 2022, I finished 1,820 soil pits in my life. I think I have a pretty good idea of what goes on underneath the ground," Mike Petersen says.
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Strip-Till Highlights: Dec. 27, 2022

December 27, 2022
Strip-Till Farmer editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at the grower's realm from the lofty digital realm. Here is our favorite content from the past week from across the web. The Best of the Web series is brought to you by CEAT Specialty Tires.
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Environmental Tillage Systems, Inc

Environmental Tillage Systems is a leading manufacturer of strip-till and nutrient-management equipment which enhances soil productivity and farm profitability.
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Kuhn Krause, Inc

Kuhn Krause's focus, above all, is to continue to produce quality products to serve producers better; to strive to respond to their needs with new tools and new technology to meet their growing challenges. Agronomic practices are constantly changing, and at a faster pace now than ever.

Yetter Farm Equipment

For over 90 years, Yetter Farm Equipment has designed and manufactured innovative and effective solutions for the agriculture industry. Today, we are proud to be recognized worldwide as an industry leader in designing row cleaners, strip till tools, planter attachments, precision fertilizer placement attachments, rotary hoes, toolbars, and harvest attachments.
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