Strip-Till Farmer editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at the grower's world from the lofty digital realm. Here is our favorite content from the past week from across the web:
- Over 100 Attendees at Strip-Till Demo Day
- Planting 15-Inch Soybeans in a Strip-Till System
- The Difference Between Regenerative, Conservation & Sustainable Ag
- Inside Look: New Strip-Till Fertility Trial at Univ. of Illinois
- Strip-Cropping Corn & Soybeans Together
Over 100 Attendees at Strip-Till Demo Day
KIMT Channel 3 covered a strip-till demo day in Rose Creek, Minn., last week. Nexus Cooperative hosted 100 people for the event which included 8 equipment companies and attendees from as far as Ohio.
Planting 15-Inch Soybeans in a Strip-Till System
Check out this short video explaining how Whitelaw, Wis., native Steve Tesarik narrows his strip-till zone with 15-inch soybeans.
The Difference Between Regenerative, Conservation & Sustainable Ag
In this YouTube Short, listen in on a discussion about the differences between ag buzz words like regenerative, conservation, sustainable, organic and more. What category does strip-till fall into and what do all these terms really mean?
Inside Look: New Strip-Till Fertility Trial at Univ. of Illinois
Strip-till researcher and 2024 National Strip-Tillage Conference speaker Jared Fender is a busy man this summer, sharing results across the Corn Belt from the first year of a massive strip-till trial he helped launch at the Univ. of Illinois. Here’s a clip from one of his presentations this summer.
Strip-Cropping Corn & Soybeans Together
Here’s something interesting we came across on X (formerly known as Twitter). Bailey Tangen, UMN resource & soil health extension educator, shared photos and a video of a strip-cropped corn and soybean field near Buffalo, Minn. Tangen says the farmer uses a Redball strip-till bar.
]Corn, soybeans, or both? This is an interesting set up I saw at a field day in Wright County yesterday: we’re looking at stripcropped corn and soybeans near Buffalo MN. This farmer uses a Redball strip till bar to reduce tillage pic.twitter.com/3FlZKen3g7
— Bailey Tangen (@baileytangen) August 16, 2024
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