I have been farming with my Dad and brother for 30 years. We ran a mixed farm of 120 cow calf with rotational grazing up to 2018 with crops. We sold the cows in 2018 after increasing pressure on pasture land and finding pasture was difficult. We now run 650 crop farm with corn and bean rotation. We have been running no-till for last 15 years with beans and minimum till on the corn ground. We run GPS in all our equipment in the spring to avoid over lap and reduce inputs. We installed GPS and yield monitoring on our combine in 2019 and have been creating yield maps since. We actively look to build soil structure and reduce tillage. We have recently purchased and strip till machine and look forward to seeing the benefits. We would also like to start using cover crops and having a strip till will help us with this. My brother and I both have 3 children that actively help us with the farm operation they range from ages 12 to 5.In the early 2000s we were still chisel plowing in the fall and then discing and cultivating in the spring before planting. In 2015 we bought a no-till drill and started no-tilling all the beans. Now we do no fall tillage and only a single pass on the corn ground with a vertical till machine to warm the ground. We tried no-till corn but due to the fact that we are more north we were losing almost 2 weeks of growing time in the spring as we waited for soil to warm. Over the years we started fencing and running the cows on the corn stalks to clean up trash and put organic matter back into the soil. We used the cows in the winter to build organic matter by feeding them on the top of the hills were top soil had been blown away in past years due to over tillage. We learned the cattle can help mend sins of past owners when it comes to soil. We have been investing a lot of money tile over the past years as it is very hard to no till with wet soil. Tile really helps with the soil structure and gives you the ability not have to disturb the tile in the spring. We bought a corn head with chopping rollers in 2019 and have notice that the worms really create balls with the corn stover over the winter and seem to make the stover disappear faster. We have also planted grass in spill ways in the spring and on headlands to stop the soil from being washed away by spring run off.