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A New Take On Strip-Till

There are many innovative ways people can use strip-till, and that includes "bio strip-till," or "bio-drilling" using cover crops. With this practice, strip-tillers use forage radishes and other cover crops to create voids in the soil, rather than using a strip-till rig.
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Digging Deep For Answers

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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Bio-Strip-Till Boosts Corn Yields

Using forage radishes and field peas for bio strip-till produced the fifth and sixth-highest corn yields of 53 test plots in 2010 at the Conservation Systems Cropping Project, a no-till demonstration farm near Forman, N.D., says farm manager Kelly Cooper.
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