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[Video] Deere's ExactShot Reduces Starter Fertilizer Need By 60%

April 27, 2023 | Posted in Equipment, Precision Agriculture

Corn & Soy Solutions Architect Grant Wonderlich explains how John Deere's new ExactShot system works alongside ExactEmerge to improve fertilizer placement on each seed while planting.

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[Podcast] A Surgery Without a Scar Approach to Strip-Tilling

This week we welcome strip-tiller Dustin Mulock to discuss how his extensive experimentation with equipment setups helped him to find the optimal operating speed and performance of his strip-till rig.

November 2, 2017 | Posted in Cover Crops, Equipment, Soil Health

7 Tips for Ideal Fertilizer Placement in a Strip-Till System

Farmers and equipment manufacturers weigh in on the best times, seasons, products and strategies for developing a successful strip-till fertility program.

By Ian Gronau posted on February 23, 2016 | Posted in Nutrient Management

From depth, timing and rate to season, product and method, strip-tillers always seem to be on the hunt for new strategies to improve their fertilizer and nutrient application programs. Strip-tillage already offers advantageous placement in the root zone, but there are still many decisions for a farmer to make when he takes to the field.

Steering Toward RTK Reliability on Sidehills

By Clair Urbain posted on January 8, 2016 | Posted in Equipment

Dustin Mulock, who farms with his father, Carl, near Woodville, Ont., is on the lookout to find ways to improve soils while reducing the horsepower needed to plant crops.

Early Strip-Till Returns Encourage Experimentation

After early success with strip-tilled corn, Delaware farmer Brad Ritter began developing a strategy to strip-till black-eyed peas with surprising results.

By Ian Gronau posted on December 8, 2015 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Nutrient Management

Harbeson, Del., farmer Brad Ritter, converted from no-till to strip-till on his 1,000-acre family farm. He’d long thought that no-till was the most logical method of farming his sandy soil, but he lamented the idea that a portion of his broadcasted fertilizer probably ran off to the Delaware Bay, rather than into the root zone of his crops.

Considering In-Furrow Starter for Corn in 2015

April 8, 2015 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming 101, Nutrient Management

The application of liquid fertilizer with the planter presents additional costs which may or may not be warranted depending on the year and where a field is located. The results of several field trials have recently been summarized in a new publication “Banding Fertilizer on the Corn Seed”.

Precise Placement Of Fertilizer In Strip-Till Can Improve Crop Health And Yields

January 3, 2014 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Precision Agriculture

Fertilizers are so well known to improve yield potential. Since WWII, farmers have applied commercial and/or organic products to grow crops.

Targeted Strip-Till Fertility Boosts Corn Yields

By Jack Zemlicka posted on November 14, 2013 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming 101

Steve Duwe understands the anxiety that comes with heavy rains and the havoc they can wreak on fields in the fall. In 2008, extreme flooding pushed corn harvest back, and an early winter prevented him from doing any fall tillage.

Can Strip-Till Fertilizer Placement Enhance Plant Health & Avoid Poor Stalk Conditions?

By Mike Petersen posted on October 24, 2013 | Posted in Nutrient Management

Strip-tillers who use soil tests to find where essential nutrients are located in the upper soil profile can better optimize fertilizer placement.

Growing Options For Strip Till Drills

June 20, 2013 | Posted in Nutrient Management

Source: Peter Hill, Farmers Weekly (UK)

Equipment from British manufacturers, as well as continental and US implement makers, is primarily geared towards cereal crops or oilseed rape, sugar beet and maize, with a view to reducing energy input and weed germination.

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Taking a Continuous Approach to Strip-Tilled Corn-on-Corn - Mike Shuter - NSTC 2015 - MP3 Audio Download

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For some farmers, their early transition to strip-till conjures up fond memories of higher yields or improved fertilizer placement, while for others, building those first berms serves more as reminder of how far they’ve come in their operation. Looking back on a decade of striptilling, Mike Shuter recalls both the pains and the gains encountered on 2,500 acres of strip-tilled corn at Shuter Sunset Farms in Frankton, Ind.

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Did Strip-Till Solve My Nutrient Stratification Problems?

Independent on-farm researcher Marion Calmer checks in from Alpha, Ill., with a preview of his 2024 National Strip-Tillage Conference presentation, “Did Strip-Till Solve My Nutrient Stratification Problems?” Over the last 5 years, Calmer has been examining fertility levels vertically in his soil profile. This inch-by-inch examination uncovered a serious nutrient stratification problem on his farm that was costing him up to $135,000 annually. The No-Till Legend switched back to strip-till in 2023 for the first time since 1995 in an effort to solve his nutrient stratification problems.

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