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[Podcast] A Surgery Without a Scar Approach to Strip-Tilling

This week we welcome strip-tiller Dustin Mulock to discuss how his extensive experimentation with equipment setups helped him to find the optimal operating speed and performance of his strip-till rig.
November 2, 2017 | Posted in Cover Crops, Equipment, Soil Health
This week we welcome strip-tiller Dustin Mulock to discuss how his extensive experimentation with equipment setups helped him to find the optimal operating speed and performance of his strip-till rig.
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7 Tips for Ideal Fertilizer Placement in a Strip-Till System

Farmers and equipment manufacturers weigh in on the best times, seasons, products and strategies for developing a successful strip-till fertility program.
By Ian Gronau posted on February 23, 2016 | Posted in Nutrient Management
From depth, timing and rate to season, product and method, strip-tillers always seem to be on the hunt for new strategies to improve their fertilizer and nutrient application programs. Strip-tillage already offers advantageous placement in the root zone, but there are still many decisions for a farmer to make when he takes to the field.
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Early Strip-Till Returns Encourage Experimentation

After early success with strip-tilled corn, Delaware farmer Brad Ritter began developing a strategy to strip-till black-eyed peas with surprising results.
By Ian Gronau posted on December 8, 2015 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Nutrient Management
Harbeson, Del., farmer Brad Ritter, converted from no-till to strip-till on his 1,000-acre family farm. He’d long thought that no-till was the most logical method of farming his sandy soil, but he lamented the idea that a portion of his broadcasted fertilizer probably ran off to the Delaware Bay, rather than into the root zone of his crops.
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Growing Options For Strip Till Drills

June 20, 2013 | Posted in Nutrient Management
Source: Peter Hill, Farmers Weekly (UK)
Equipment from British manufacturers, as well as continental and US implement makers, is primarily geared towards cereal crops or oilseed rape, sugar beet and maize, with a view to reducing energy input and weed germination.
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Remembering the Grandfather of No-Till

Remembering the Grandfather of No-Till

On this edition of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by CultivAce, we honor the life and legacy of Bill Richards — the ‘Grandfather of No-Till’ — who passed away Tuesday at the age of 93.
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Environmental Tillage Systems, Inc

Environmental Tillage Systems is a leading manufacturer of strip-till and nutrient-management equipment which enhances soil productivity and farm profitability.
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Kuhn Krause, Inc

Kuhn Krause's focus, above all, is to continue to produce quality products to serve producers better; to strive to respond to their needs with new tools and new technology to meet their growing challenges. Agronomic practices are constantly changing, and at a faster pace now than ever.

Yetter Farm Equipment

For over 90 years, Yetter Farm Equipment has designed and manufactured innovative and effective solutions for the agriculture industry. Today, we are proud to be recognized worldwide as an industry leader in designing row cleaners, strip till tools, planter attachments, precision fertilizer placement attachments, rotary hoes, toolbars, and harvest attachments.
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