Defending the Land Blog

This story originally appeared in a January issue of Strip-Till Strategies and is re-posted with permission. By Ian Gronau, Associate Editor 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...

By Ben Pederson It was August 2011, and I was growing restless with our cropping system. Actually, I was past restless and knew what I wanted to do. For 4 or more years, I had researched strip-till as an alternative to the aggressive broadcast tillage we were doing at the time. I hated field...

With lower commodity prices and the cost of inputs and land remaining steady, farmers are looking at different ways to save money without sacrificing yield. One practice that’s gained momentum with conventional and no-till farmers alike is strip-tillage; or as, we at Environmental Tillage Systems...