Rick DeGroote, and his father, Duane, farm 23,000 acres in 5 counties in northeast and north central Iowa. Growing corn and soybeans that are either no-tilled and conventionally tilled, depending on the field, the farm team relies primarily on John Deere equipment for all tillage, spraying, planting and harvesting.

Roric Paulman grows a wide variety of crops on 10,000 acres in the Sutherland, Neb., area. About 85% of the cropland is irrigated and he and his son, Zach, practice no-till or strip-till across all crops. 

Seth Wenzel and his father, Brian, are transitioning to strip-tilled corn and no-tilled soybeans on the 4,000 acres they farm near Kent in northwest Illinois.

The path some farmers take in their strip-tillage journey is to quickly adopt — and heavily invest in — RTK farm-by- the-inch technology. But for Tom Cotter at Cotter Farms near Austin, Minn., he would rather first get research need vs. want and properly develop prescriptions before going to deep, too fast.

Jack Boyer has an engineering background, so he’s not afraid to roll up his sleeves and attack equipment problems that come his way.

Brian Newcombe, who farms with his brother Craig, near Port Williams, Nova Scotia, has been incorporating precision farming techniques into their operation since 1998.

Joe Breker is a believer in precision farming equipment, but he takes a more holistic approach to managing his 2,500 acre operation in Havana, N.D.

Kerry Knuth has taken a different approach to his precision farming system when compared with other farmers who tend to follow one particular brand of equipment.  

Mark Richards has deep experience with precision farming equipment, which complements his overall farming philosophy of being a “smart” steward of his operation.