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Innovative Strip-Tillers Push Yield Limits & Maximize Nutrient Use

Speakers at the 2022 National Strip-Tillage Conference highlighted new strategies to improve yields, manage nutrients, alleviate compaction and more.
By Michaela Paukner posted on October 30, 2022 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming 101, Nutrient Management, Soil Health
From practical advice on alleviating compaction to conflicting views on soil health to a former NASA engineer’s new yield-boosting technology, the 2022 National Strip-Tillage Conference sent attendees home with many new ideas to try on their operations — and a lot to talk about at the coffee shop.
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[Podcast] Increasing Seed Prices & Nitrogen Market Risk for 2023 with RaboResearch’s Sam Taylor

In this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by the Pluribus Lite from Dawn Equipment, we speak with Sam Taylor, RaboResearch’s executive director of research for farm inputs in the North American market. Taylor explains his projections for high seed prices in 2023, plus gives us his analysis of the potash, nitrogen and broader fertilizer markets.
By Michaela Paukner posted on September 16, 2022
In this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by the Pluribus Lite from Dawn Equipment, we speak with Sam Taylor, RaboResearch’s executive director of research for farm inputs in the North American market. Taylor explains his projections for high seed prices in 2023, plus gives us his analysis of the potash, nitrogen and broader fertilizer markets.
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[Podcast] Saving Soil, Sharing Success with 2022 Strip-Till Innovator Brian Ryberg

In this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by the Pluribus Lite from Dawn Equipment, we speak with Brian Ryberg, the first farmer to strip-till sugar beets in Minnesota.
By Michaela Paukner posted on August 31, 2022 | Posted in Soil Health
In this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by the Pluribus Lite from Dawn Equipment, we speak with Brian Ryberg of Buffalo Lake, Minn., the first farmer to strip-till sugar beets in Minnesota. 
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[Podcast] Automating Soil Testing with Precision Planting’s Dale Koch & Doug Wright

In this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by the Pluribus Lite from Dawn Equipment, Precision Planting’s Dale Koch and Doug Wright discuss the components of Radicle Agronomics, how Radicle Agronomics works with the company’s existing products, what farmers can expect from Radicle Agronomics and much more.
By Michaela Paukner posted on August 18, 2022 | Posted in Soil Health
In this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by the Pluribus Lite from Dawn Equipment, Precision Planting’s Dale Koch and Doug Wright discuss the components of Radicle Agronomics, how Radicle Agronomics works with the company’s existing products, what farmers can expect from Radicle Agronomics and much more.
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[Podcast] Rehabbing Soil on Farm Fields, MLB Ballparks & More with Parker Cohn

In this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by the Pluribus Lite from Dawn Equipment, editor Brian O’Connor talks with Parker Cohn, CEO of California-based Performance Resources Management (PRM), about how PRM designs biological management programs for growers, new technologies he’s putting to use to improve soil health and much more.
By Michaela Paukner posted on August 4, 2022 | Posted in Soil Health
In this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by the Pluribus Lite from Dawn Equipment, editor Brian O’Connor talks with Parker Cohn, CEO of California-based Performance Resources Management (PRM), about how PRM designs biological management programs for growers, new technologies he’s putting to use to improve soil health and much more.
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[Podcast] Strip-Tilling Into Perennial Living Mulch with Andrew Bowman & Charles Martin

In this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by the Pluribus Lite from Dawn Equipment, Oneida, Ill., neighbors Andrew Bowman and Charles Martin explain their experiment with strip-tilling into Kura clover, the benefits of strip-tilling into a living mulch, how to make a clover polyculture work for cash crops and much more.
By Michaela Paukner posted on July 14, 2022 | Posted in Cover Crops, Soil Health
In this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by the Pluribus Lite from Dawn Equipment, Oneida, Ill., neighbors Andrew Bowman and Charles Martin explain their experiment with strip-tilling sweet corn into Kura clover, the benefits of strip-tilling into a living mulch, how to make a clover polyculture work for cash crops and much more.
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9th Annual Strip-Till Operational Practices Benchmark Study

Strip-Tillers Out Yield US, No-Till Averages in 2021

Annual benchmark survey reports increase in yields, banding of nutrients and fall strip-till.
By Michaela Paukner posted on July 8, 2022 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming 101
Despite regional weather events, the average strip-tiller’s yields outperformed the U.S. average and their no-till counterparts in 2021, according to data from the 2022 Strip-Till Benchmark Survey.  
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