Defending the Land Blog

Two years ago, Vollmershausen Farms Ltd., switched from full surface tillage to zone till because of their desire to focus on soil health. So far they have found the combination of reduced tillage and cover crops has yielded more than just healthier soils. Tyler Vollmershausen is the sixth...

If you are an ETS customer or have spent some time at a conservation tillage conference, chances are you’ve met Kevin Kuehn. Officially, he’s the product support manager for ETS who has been with the company since its inception. Unofficially, he’s a walking strip-till encyclopedia. Over the years...

Ben Pederson shares his insight in how he discovered the right recipe for fertilizer placement with the SoilWarrior system. Way back before I implemented the practice of strip-till on my farm, I would day dream of the perfect system. If I could get over the hurdles of my father’s objections,...

Like everything we build at ETS, our HoneyWarrior was born through a love for the land, a desire for progress, and a drive for precise nutrient application. In this case the nutrient taking center stage is good, old-fashioned manure. The HoneyWarrior got its start in 2006 when ETS founder and...

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...

If you fish, you know that the margin between a full livewell and an empty stringer can be pretty thin. The technology we use with the SoilWarrior ensures that we can put you and your nutrients in the exact right place to be productive and most fully benefit your crops. By working with some of...

We’ve all heard the saying “work smarter, not harder.” It may be an overused line in the business world, but it does apply to many farming operations where it would be difficult to work much harder. After all, there are a limited number of hands available and only so many hours in the day. But with...

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...