National Strip-Tillage Conference Updates

Building Biological Stamina in Your Strip-Tilled Soils

With a self-described “living laboratory,” Streator, Ill., strip-tiller Larry Tombaugh will share how his constant experiments with biological combinations helps stimulate soil health and add bushels each year during the 2020 Virtual National Strip-Tillage Conference.
Keeping microbes happy is a cornerstone of Streator, Ill., strip-tiller Larry Tombaugh’s system. As he says, microbes have a “Dracula complex” and don’t like sunlight.
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Applying an Analytical Eye to Measure Soil Health Improvement

Dr. Jerry Hatfield, former USDA plant physiologist and Wayne Fredericks, Osage, Iowa, strip-tiller to share on-farm results and advice on how incremental improvements in farm management will bolster soil health at the 2020 National Strip-Tillage Conference.
Farmers collect data and make operational changes throughout the course of their farming career. But how much of a correlation is there between the analysis and actual application of in-field information to improve on-farm decision-making?
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5 Takeaways from the 2019 National Strip-Tillage Conference

2019 has tested the resolve of many farmers. So it was refreshing to experience an overall optimistic environment at the 6th annual National Strip-Tillage Conference in Peoria, Ill. Many of the 338 farmers, researchers and industry professionals assembled with a shared objective of making lemonade out of lemons in 2019, but they also sought opportunities to rebound in 2020.
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60-Inch Strip-Till: The Good, the Bad and the New

Bob Recker, owner of Cedar Valley Innovation, to share results of wide row strip-till trials and detail next-step experiments for the innovative cropping approach at the 2019 National Strip-Tillage Conference
Bob Recker, owner of Cedar Valley Innovation, to share results of wide row strip-till trials and detail next-step experiments for the innovative cropping approach at the 2019 National Strip-Tillage Conference.
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Strip-Tilling Soybeans: Managing Variables to Maximize Yields

University of Wisconsin researcher John Gaska to share current research results measuring fertilizer placement and seedbed preparation for strip-tilled soybeans at the 2019 National Strip-Tillage Conference.
University of Wisconsin researcher John Gaska to share current research results measuring fertilizer placement and seedbed preparation for strip-tilled soybeans at the 2019 National Strip-Tillage Conference.
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Testing Tillage Intensity: Learning from a Less is More Mindset

Longtime University of Illinois crop production researcher Emerson Nafziger to analyze and compare different tillage trials in continuous and rotated corn systems at 2019 National Strip-Tillage Conference.
Longtime University of Illinois crop production researcher Emerson Nafziger to analyze and compare different tillage trials in continuous and rotated corn systems at 2019 National Strip-Tillage Conference.
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