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Making Environmental, Financial Gains with Strip-Till & Cover Crops

Iowa farmer improves soil, reduces inputs and achieves consistent yields with strip-till system.
By Noah Newman posted on November 1, 2022 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Cover Crops, Nutrient Management, Soil Health
Eric Hawbaker didn’t grow up on a farm, but a decade of working in the fertilizer industry as an agronomist, service tech and precision ag salesman left him concerned about the losses he saw occurring as a result of broadcasting nutrients.
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Boosting a Strip-Till System with Intercropping, Companion & Relay Cropping

Nebraska strip-tiller shares keys to success for multiple cropping systems.
By Noah Newman posted on October 31, 2022 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Crop Protection, Nutrient Management
Ty Fickenscher, owner of Upward Ag Systems in Axtell, Neb., is passionate about helping farmers reap the benefits of strip-till. He stepped up to the podium at the 2022 National Strip-Tillage Conference to share how companion cropping, intercropping and relay cropping can take an operation to the next level.
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Strip-Till Cracks Yield Cap in Staunch No-Till Country

Western Kentucky growers find strip-till adds bushels in the bin and dollars to the bottom line where no-till had reached a corn-yield plateau.
By Dan Crummett posted on October 29, 2022 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming 101, Equipment, Nutrient Management
No-till farming became a way of life early in the rolling hills of western Kentucky. Growers there, eager to protect their fragile soils, began to adopt the practice pioneered by local farmer Harry Young, who planted his first no-till crop in 1962.
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Synergizing Soil Health, Equipment & Technology

No-till, strip-till and cover crops help Cornwallis Farms in Nova Scotia stay competitive with a diversified 1,800-acre operation.
By Frank Lessiter posted on October 12, 2022 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Cover Crops, Nutrient Management
When your family has been farming some of the same ground for more than 255 years, there have been many changes. Yet some of the most meaningful and innovative changes have taken place over the past 25 years as Brian Newcombe and his brother Craig moved to no-till and strip-till at Cornwallis Farms in Port Williams, Nova Scotia.
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Dealer Facilitates Rise of Strip-Till in Western Kentucky

H&R Agri-Power’s Jeff Morgan rented strip-till equipment, lent a strip-till rig and fertilizer cart to a local crop consultant and collaborated with input dealers to help customers adopt strip-till.
By Dan Crummett posted on October 3, 2022
In the staunch no-till country of western Kentucky, a group of dealers and their customers are working together to crack yield caps through the adoption of strip-till.
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