Strip-till
![A field planted using strip-till. Notice the crop residue of prior crop between the growing crop rows.](/Images/godic/202502/13/Cotton_Production_in_the_North_Carolina_Coastal_Plain4433.jpg")
![One of multiple variations of strip tillage equipment](/Images/godic/202502/13/Strip_tillage4433.jpg")
Strip-till is a conservation system that uses 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 is to contain the seed row. This type of tillage is performed with special equipment and can require the farmer to make multiple trips, depending on the strip-till implement used, and field conditions. Each row that has been strip-tilled is usually about eight to ten inches wide.