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No-Till Practices Boost Missouri Farm Operation

April 23, 2012 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming 101

Source: NRCS Missouri Office

Jim Hoene Improves Farming Operations Systematically with Conservation Practices, Including No-Till

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New Strip-Tiller Considers Cover Crops To Protect The Soil

By Dan Zinkand posted on April 22, 2012 | Posted in Cover Crops

Many years ago, an advertisement for an investment firm contained the memorable line, “When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen.”

Strip-Till With Cover Crops Enhances Cotton Yields

April 22, 2012 | Posted in Cover Crops

Source: University of Georgia

Using cereal rye and wheat as cover crops increased the yields of strip-tilled cotton vs. using the same cover crops with conventional tillage, according to recent research by the University of Georgia.

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Always Something New To Learn

By Dan Zinkand posted on April 22, 2012 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming 101

The great thing about visiting with people in agriculture is learning about new practices, including bio strip-till.

Cover Crops Can Recover Flooded Fields

April 22, 2012 | Posted in Cover Crops

Source: Paul Jasa, University of Nebraska

Producers should make field repairs as needed and seed a cover crop to help protect the soil and start rebuilding soil life before the 2012 cropping season.

Strip-Tillers See Big Fertilizer Savings

By Dan Zinkand posted on April 22, 2012 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming 101, Soil Health

Ask Floyd Koerner III why he and his father, Floyd Koerner Jr., switched to strip-till after 25 years of continuously no-tilling corn and soybeans, and the Laingsburg, Mich., farmer gets right to the point.

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A New Take On Strip-Till

By Dan Zinkand posted on April 22, 2012 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming 101

There are many innovative ways people can use strip-till, and that includes "bio strip-till," or "bio-drilling" using cover crops. With this practice, strip-tillers use forage radishes and other cover crops to create voids in the soil, rather than using a strip-till rig.

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