Ryan, an idea of a way to address your family issues:

"...In my situation it has been very hard to persuade my grandfather and uncles 80 + years of experience in conventional tillage practices to take a look at strip tillage..."

Rather than trying to change their deep seated feelings about the necessity of full tillage and also for economic reasons, I suggest you ask them to let you try strip till on maybe 20 or 40 acres somewhere.  This is a time for you to experiment with different types of strip till and learn about it without trying to convince them to risk turning the whole farm over. They feel there is too much risk and they are probably right.

Maybe try a couple different systems - coulter, deep shank, fall, spring, fall and spring, etc. Make up a 4, 6 or 8 row mounted bar from an old mounted planter frame and give strip till a try. You will learn a lot and be in a much better place to make a decision on which way to go before risking an entire crop. And you will have their support when you do it.

By the way even on a small mounted bar we find it is very important to have gage wheels on the front of the toolbar and put the three point in the slots to float - let the bar line itself up to the ground and you MUST have a top link.

Best of luck.

Jim at Dawn