After 15 years of ridge-tilling, Ulysses, Kan., farmer Larry Smith switched to strip-tilling 4 years ago and finds the practice helps him compensate for environmental factors he can't control - chiefly, sandy soils and unstoppable wind.
Roger Wenning of Greensburg, Ind., shares his strip-till strategy and explains the modifications he made to a dry planter to maximize it for strip-till.
No-Till Farmer meets with Environmental Tillage System CEO on his family farm in So Central MN to talk about Strip-Till benefits, ETS Soil Warrior, and why Strip-till is slow to catch on.
After 9 years of using the Rawson 3-coulter zone-till system to plant corn, Jim Millett and his father, Joe, of Bailey, Mich., switched to strip-till in 1997 and have stuck with the system ever since.
Strip-tilling has increased dryland corn yields 30 to 45 bushels per acre for Scott Darling of Pender, Neb., since he started strip-tilling about 4 years ago.
Using a soil thermometer that also collects and stores temperatures can help strip-tillers learn invaluable information, says Jodi DeJong-Hughes, University of Minnesota Extension crops adviser.
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