This week's lead story includes specific recommendations from Iowa farmer and tillage consultant Kevin Kimberley on how strip-tillers can cope successfully with the bone-dry, rock-hard fields they'll be facing this fall in much of the Midwest and Great Plains.
Strip-tillers may face tougher conditions this fall if they're farming in dry regions, so it's going to be necessary to account for that when doing field work this fall, says consultant Kevin Kimberley of Maxwell, Iowa.
A study by China Agricultural University's Department of Grassland Science and the Edisto Research & Education Center in Blackville, S.C., found that strip-till is the preferred environment for growing corn in the dryland, rain-fed regions in the southeastern Corn Belt.
Strip-tilling and simultaneously placing manure can save the time and money of an extra trip, reduce commercial fertilizer costs, increase yields and protect the environment, say Midwest strip-tillers who have tried this practice.
Now is a good time for strip-tillers to dig soil pits to assess root development, compaction and soil health, says Jodi DeJong-Hughes, University of Minnesota Extension strip-till expert.
Veteran strip-tiller Tom Oswald of Cleghorn, Iowa, wants to find a happy medium between tilling the soil and having soil become so loose and fluffy that it undermines corn standability.
Three experienced scientists say soil pits are another tool no-tillers can use to examine soil structure, root development, compaction, soil quality and other important agronomical issues.
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