Buffalo Lake, Minnesota farmer Brian Ryberg was recognized at the National Strip Till Conference for being the first Minnesota farmer to use strip till in his sugarbeet crop. Ryberg transitioned his farm to strip till in 2014. “We’re 100 percent strip till and vertical till. We’ve implemented cover crops and tried inter-seeding for a few years. We have 22 inch narrow corn and ran into challenges in August that wouldn’t allow inter-seeding to survive. Now, we focus on trying to get cereal rye spreading on acres right after harvest.” Ryberg sees the benefits from strip till. “We noticed the soil health structure really improved. In wet years, we can carry loads on our combine, grain carts and semis into fields and don’t leave tracks. We can handle water infiltration much better. Overall, soil structure and diversity is in the soil, like earth warms. It’s all good.”
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