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Best Of Both Worlds

Using cover crops with strip-tillage helps growers improve the crop-row environment, build soil organic matter and protect fields from erosion
Using cover crops with strip-tillage helps growers improve the crop-row environment, build soil organic matter and protect fields from erosion
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8 Tips to Improve Strip-Tilling

Paying attention to soil conditions, making timely adjustments and minimizing air pockets while strip-tilling in the fall will pay off with better corn roots, stands and yields, says Kevin Kimberley, owner of Kimberley Ag Consulting, Maxwell, Iowa.
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Washington Farmer Turns To Strip-Till For Continuous Corn

You might call Jay Petty a pioneer, of sorts. The Pasco, Wash., farmer is the first in his area to trying strip-tilling, but apparently it's catching on. After he bought a strip-till rig last year three of his neighbors bought strip-till rigs as they search for ways to save time, money and fuel.
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Twin-Row Strip-Till Attracts Farmers

Strip-twinning helps farmers increase in-row spacing between corn plants, exposes corn to more sunlight and can increase yields.
Argyle, Iowa, grower Brian Klemme began twin-row strip-tilling corn in the spring of 2009 because he wanted to increase plant populations and spacing within rows and, hopefully, increase yields.
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