Strip tillage and the equipment needed for doing soil-health practices in a crop field are the focus of a free demonstration day near Rose Creek next month for area farmers and agricultural landowners ...
Editor’s Note: This is a continuation of Steps to Strip-Till Success (Part 1). Weed control. If you switch from conventional tillage to strip-till, you may need to manage winter annual weeds in the ...
When fourth-generation farmer Lance Saathoff climbs into the cab of his 510-horsepower John Deere tractor, he's in a control center that's guided by distant satellites to fraction-of-an-inch precision ...
Summers Manufacturing, Devils Lake, North Dakota, has launched its new strip till equipment line featuring two distinct models: the Verdant and the Apex. These high-performance units are designed to ...
In this week’s Boots In The Field podcast, Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie addresses a 4R-type question regarding strip-till fertilizer placement. The grower says he currently is ...
Farmers will have an opportunity to see various strip-till bars in action at a field day farm near Renwick, on Thursday, Aug. 10. Iowa continues to see an increasing number of acres of strip-tillage ...
MASON CITY, Iowa — Four north Iowa farmers are among those who are sold on strip till. The farmers — Wayne Fredericks, Osage; Jeff Reints, Shell Rock; Brad Watson, Clear Lake; and Doug Caffrey, ...
WEST FARGO, N.D. — Interest in using a strip till management system to grow sugarbeets is growing. North Dakota State University has renewed its research, which originally was conducted between 2007 ...
MASON CITY, Iowa — Four north Iowa farmers are among those who are sold on strip till. They say the system gives them good yields while saving soil. The farmers — Wayne Fredericks, Osage; Jeff Reints, ...
Prior to 2013, Grand View, Idaho, grower Scott Bennett had a very simple approach to producing sugarbeets in a certain field along the edge of town: "I just didn’t put beets there," he remarks. "The ...
The Illinois Department of Agriculture is offering a $35 grant for every acre that uses no-till or strip-till practices this fall. “No-till and strip-till practices improve soil health, reduce erosion ...
Crop growers will get an update on the latest advancement in strip tillage at this year’s fall field day at Iowa State University’s Agricultural Engineering and Agronomy Research Farms, to be held ...