Seeding & Planting

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8 Steps to Long-Term Strip-Till Success

Alan Madison’s checklist includes cereal rye, high-rate strips, in-season chlorophyll testing & early harvests
Take one look at Alan Madison’s office wall — covered with high-yield contest plaques, awards and honors — and you can immediately tell he’s been on the cutting edge of conservation ag for quite some time.
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Shining a Light on Better Corn, Soybean Management

Beck’s Practical Farm Research puts equipment, planting practices & crop protection products to the test at multiple sites

Each year, Atlanta, Ind.-based Beck’s Hybrids puts out one of the most comprehensive books on ag research centered around the company’s Practical Farm Research (PFR) program. 


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David Hula Shares Keys to High Strip-Till Yields

Record-breaking formula consists of balanced nutrition & on-farm experimentation
Charles City, Va., strip-tiller David Hula recently captured his 13th NCGA High Yield Contest title with a 490-bushel yield in the strip-till irrigated class — nothing new for the third-generation farmer, who remains the only one to break the 600-bushel mark (2019, 2021 and 2023).
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[Podcast] First-Generation Strip-Tiller Unlocks Multiple Cover Crop Benefits

On this edition of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Environmental Tillage Systems, first-generation strip-tiller James Hepp takes us inside his operation in Rockwell City, Iowa.
On this edition of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Environmental Tillage Systems, first-generation strip-tiller James Hepp takes us inside his operation in Rockwell City, Iowa.
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3 Strip-Till Tips, Observations & Insights

Strip-till veterans, researchers & agronomists weigh in with lessons learned from the field
Here at Strip-Till Farmer, there are plenty of insights gleaned. I dug through some recent notes and came across the following 3 tips, observations and insights, to give you something to think about before hopping in the cab this spring.
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Strip-Till Farmer delivers a mix of features on strip-till farmers, strip-till management topics and trending practices in strip-till. This FREE quarterly print newsletter is available to qualified subscribers in the U.S. and Canada. 
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