Soil-moisture sensing and analysis allows Colorado strip-tiller Chad Godsey to make smarter irrigation decisions and increase yields on his family’s farm.
Soil-moisture sensing and analysis allows Colorado strip-tiller Chad Godsey to make smarter irrigation decisions and increase yields on his family's farm.
Source: Mahdi Al-Kaisi, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University
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Using a strip tillage system in combination with cover crops benefits vegetable farmers as well as the land, according to long-term research by Dan Brainard, a Michigan State University (MSU) horticulture researcher.
in MSU strip-tilled sweet corn trials, plots with rye residue on the soil surface had approximately 5 percent greater water content in the top 10 inches then plots without rye mulch.
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