Strip-tilling instead of using conventional tillage can save farmers money, according to a recent study funded by the Corn Marketing Program of Michigan (CMPM).
Many corn growers prefer strip-till vs. no-till because it creates warmer, drier and looser soil conditions to plant in the intended row area early in the growing season, according to a report by U.S. and Australian scientists.
University of Arkansas researchers visited Kip Cullers' contest field with the intent of documenting crop growth characteristics that would result in these yields, and study yield potential of soybeans under intensive management on a large scale with strip trials in eastern Arkansas.
Some species of insects and weeds may have benefitted from the warmer-than-normal temperatures and lack of snowfall in the state, two Purdue Extension specialists say.
Soybean cyst nematodes have the potential to cause devastating yield losses, population densities can increase very rapidly within a single growing season, and dormant eggs can survive for more than a decade in infested soils in the absence of soybeans.
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