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Making Calculated Risks In Strip-Till Pay Off

By Jack Zemlicka posted on October 24, 2013 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming 101
Strip-tillers take a lot of pride in the planning and preparation that comes with the farming practice. More and more, strip-tillers I talk with are paying closer attention to managing seed populations, variable-rate fertilizer application and soil health. Precision technology is certainly assisting them with improved accuracy and regulating input costs.
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Strip-Till Experiment Offers Early Lessons

By Jack Zemlicka posted on October 11, 2013 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming 101
When Nick Viney partnered with Josh Trautman to form Badgerland Grain Farms LLC in 2006, they started with just 155 acres in south-central Wisconsin. But during the last 7 years, they've grown their Evansville, Wis.-based operation to more than 1,800 acres, an even split of strip-till corn and no-till soybeans, with about 180 acres of no-till wheat.
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