On this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Environmental Tillage Systems (ETS), we catch up with Mercer, Mo., strip-tiller Galt Porter for a conversation about his award-winning 405-bushel corn yield.

The 27-year-old is the reigning national NCGA Yield Contest champion in the strip-till non-irrigated class. Porter shares the keys to his high-yielding success and reveals how strip-till has been a game-changer for his family’s operation. The 5th-generation farmer also details his nutrient management strategies, which include split nitrogen (N) applications, and goes over the top lessons learned from his national championship yield that will influence how he manages the rest of his acres.

On this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Environmental Tillage Systems, we catch up with Hatley, Wis., strip-tiller Mike Fischer as he gets ready to make spring strips.

On this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Environmental Tillage Systems, we’re tackling one of the most common yield-robbing pests in the Corn Belt and beyond — corn rootworm.

Ann Marie Journey, independent soil, wetland and stream health evaluator and founder of EntoVentures LLC, shares her wealth of knowledge about the “billion-dollar bug.”

On this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter Farm Equipment, first-generation strip-tiller James Hepp takes us inside his operation in Rockwell City, Iowa.

On this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter, 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.

On this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter, Charles City, Va., strip-tiller David Hula shares the keys to his strip-till success. 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).

On this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter, we’re headed inside the 2025 National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Ky.

We get the inside scoop on 4 new strip-till tools to help increase efficiency and maximize productivity in the fall and spring. Plus, Beck’s Hybrids agronomists share the latest revelations about corn root structure and 7 tips for managing tar spot — an emerging fungal disease in corn in the Midwest.

On this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter Farm Equipment, first-generation strip-tiller Eric Reed shares his formula for high yields with a limited budget in poor soils.

Eric Reed had to figure it out on his own when he started strip-tilling corn on the Tennessee/Alabama border. His first yield was 170 bushels per acre in 2015. Four years later, he was up to 260 bushels per acre. And shortly after that, he broke the Alabama dryland record with 316 bushels per acre.

The Elora, Tenn., native shares the keys to his success and lessons learned along the way, including insights on equipment, compaction, hybrid selection, plant populations, fertility, planter prep and more.

On this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter Farm Equipment, Shawn Olsen shares how he strip-tills his own 4,500-acres before custom strip-tilling another 20,000 acres in Hayti, S.D.

On top of farming 4,500 acres with his dad, David, brother, Kelly and son, Carter, Shawn Olsen also runs a custom strip-till business that covers up to 25,000 acres in east central South Dakota. The strip-till calendar starts relatively early on Olsen’s farm — he starts making strips as soon as soybean harvest wraps up in late September.

Olsen explains how he’s able to cover so much ground in such a short amount of time, details his approach to making strips and maximizing nutrient use efficiency in the fall and explains why strip-till is on the rise in his neck of the woods.

On this edition of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter Farm Equipment, the jovial Jon Stevens gives us a peek inside his Rock Creek, Minn., strip-till operation.

Stevens began his relentless pursuit for healthy soils a little over a decade ago when he ditched conventional tillage for strip-till and no-till. In this presentation from the 2023 National Strip-Tillage Conference, Stevens details his systematic approach to building soil health using strip-till, cattle and cover crops, and shares results from on-farm trials to illustrate how farm profitability doesn’t always equate to being the highest yielder.