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Strip-Till Highlights: Dec. 10, 2024

December 10, 2024
Strip-Till Farmer editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at the grower's realm from the lofty digital realm. Here is our favorite content from the past week from across the web.
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Strip-Till Highlights: March 19, 2024

March 19, 2024
Strip-Till Farmer editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at the grower's realm from the lofty digital realm. Here is our favorite content from the past week from across the web.
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5 Efficiency Enhancing Tips for Strip-Till Nutrient Management

Nebraska strip-tiller, Brian Herbek, shares how he’s been able to extract 30% more bushels-per-acre out of each pound of applied nitrogen.
By Ian Gronau posted on December 27, 2023 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Soil Health
When it comes to nutrient management, Deweese, Neb., farmer Brian Herbek lives by the 4R philosophy. As a fifth-generation farmer on a dryland and irrigated 1,900-acre corn and soybean operation, he’s focused on slowly evolving his practices over the years to become more efficient.
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What to Consider Before Applying Fall Nitrogen

October 9, 2023 | Posted in Nutrient Management
Source: Pioneer

Traditionally, fall application of N is practiced in areas where soil temperatures usually remain below 50°F from late fall to spring. Lower soil temperatures reduce the activity of nitrifying soil bacteria that convert ammonium to nitrates. However, if soil temperatures rise above 50°F, N is at risk of loss through leaching or denitrification.


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Learning from the Past to Move Strip-Till Forward

With benefits that include the precision placement of nutrients, strip-till practices established in the 1970s are being pushed to greater degrees of success today.
By Mike Petersen posted on August 15, 2023 | Posted in Nutrient Management
"As a soil scientist, I really started as a 5-year-old digging underneath the ash trees on our farm, looking to see what was going on underneath the soil. When I completed the work I did for Bayer Crop Sciences in 2022, I finished 1,820 soil pits in my life. I think I have a pretty good idea of what goes on underneath the ground," Mike Petersen says.
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Strip-Till & Banded Fertilizer Boost ROI

The benefits of banded nutrients naturally led Dan Lane to strip-till 20 years ago and his corn yields and bottom line have proven it was a good change.
By Dan Crummett posted on July 6, 2023 | Posted in Equipment, Nutrient Management, Precision Agriculture
Since becoming the sole operators of their family’s Homewood Farms in 2000, Dan Lane and his wife, Jennifer, have used precision practices and conservation tillage to significantly boost corn and soybean yields as well as overall farm income.
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Online Extras: Spring 2023 Issue

April 21, 2023

Web-exclusive content for this issue includes:

  • Join the Nutrient Management and Equipment Email discussion group!
  • Mitigate & Alleviate Compaction for Better Strip-Till Outcomes

  • Fine-Tune Your Planter to Set Up for Successful Season

  • Strip-Till Farmer Podcast
  • Strip-Till Farmer's Best of the Web

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Balancing Workload & Improving Results with Strip-Till

3 Iowa growers explain how strip-till provides better water infiltration, higher soil organic matter, better fuel efficiency and more on their operations.
By Michaela Paukner posted on February 10, 2023 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Soil Health
Whether you’re a strip-till veteran or simply thinking about trying it out, there’s always something to learn from your fellow farmers. The Southfork Watershed Alliance, which works with farmers around the Iowa River’s South Fork in central Iowa, invited three local farmers to share their experiences with strip-till during a panel discussion.
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Environmental Tillage Systems, Inc

Environmental Tillage Systems is a leading manufacturer of strip-till and nutrient-management equipment which enhances soil productivity and farm profitability.
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Kuhn Krause's focus, above all, is to continue to produce quality products to serve producers better; to strive to respond to their needs with new tools and new technology to meet their growing challenges. Agronomic practices are constantly changing, and at a faster pace now than ever.

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For over 90 years, Yetter Farm Equipment has designed and manufactured innovative and effective solutions for the agriculture industry. Today, we are proud to be recognized worldwide as an industry leader in designing row cleaners, strip till tools, planter attachments, precision fertilizer placement attachments, rotary hoes, toolbars, and harvest attachments.
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