Strip-till is a conservation system that utilizes a minimum tillage. It combines the soil drying and warming benefits of conventional tillage with the soil-protecting advantages of no-till by disturbing only the portion of the soil that's to contain the seed row. This type of tillage is performed with special equipment and requires the farmer to make multiple trips. Each row that has been strip-tilled is usually about eight to ten inches wide. Another benefit of strip-tilling is that the farmer… (More on Strip-till)