Ten years ago, north-central Iowa farmer Dave Gerber did what few dare—he switched all of his 1,100 acres from conventional tillage to strip-till in just one season. He now spends 60% less on diesel ...

CARTWRIGHT, N.D. -- Scott Flynn is one of a handful of farmers trying strip-till farming in the Yellowstone River Valley, along the North Dakota/Montana border. Strip-tillage is a hot topic this year ...

With spring drilling done and dusted we have started inter-row hoeing our winter crops. We focused on our winter beans first as they were particularly weedy. Most of the “weeds” are volunteer spring ...

ADVANCE, Mo. -- Stacks of plow blades rest on old wooden pallets inside a large barn and tool shed on the Paul Lanpher farm near Advance. Pipes have been welded into places on the plow blades. Some of ...

George Sly is slashing the cost of growing sugar beet by using a strip-till cultivator he designed himself, which is also improving his heavy Lincolnshire silty soils. His machine can cultivate a ...

A little bit of Kiwi ingenuity from a Wairarapa team has sown the seeds for a new farming machine which is cutting the cost of planting maize. The new machine combines a Swiss strip-till machine, a ...