Strip-Till Farmer editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at the grower's world from the lofty digital realm. Here is our favorite content from the past week from across the web:
- Farmers Discuss Benefits, Challenges of Twin-Row Strip-Till
- Hefty Brothers Compare Strip-Till & No-Till Systems
- Making the ‘Business’ Case for Strip-Till
- The Road to 100-Bushel Soybeans
- The Road to 300-Bushel Corn
Farmers Discuss Benefits, Challenges of Twin-Row Strip-Till
Kevin Ikemire sparked a good conversation in the Strip-Till Community Forum on Facebook with a question about twin-row strip-till. “Has anyone tried twin rows and strip-till? I’m thinking the problem is the rows are right on the edge of the strip and doesn’t leave much room for error on steering. Not so much worried about the nutrient side but would like to be planting on a clean strip,” Kevin says. Ryan George responded, saying twin-row strip-till has worked well for his soybeans. “We’re doing it for beans,” he says. “Works pretty well. We’re adding implement guidance this fall on the strip-till bar to improve.”
Hefty Brothers Compare Strip-Till & No-Till Systems
Brian and Darren Hefty break down the basics of strip-till and no-till and explain what they like about each system in this classic Ag PhD clip.
Making the ‘Business’ Case for Strip-Till
Implementing conservation practices like strip-till and cover crops from a business perspective is the mission of Precision Conservation Management, a program created by the Illinois Corn Growers Association. Benjamin Herrold dives into the program and some of the data collected recently from various trials. “Excessive tillage is costly,” says Gary Schnitkey, Univ. of Illinois ag economist. “We very rarely see two-, three-pass tillage systems being economical. However, if you look at no-till versus a one-pass system, or any of the tillage systems for that matter, tillage does seem to have a yield advantage…the added yield often does not cover the cost of the tillage pass.”
Source:Benjamin Herrold
The Road to 100-Bushel Soybeans
In this episode of RealAgriculture's Soybean School, Maizex Seeds agronomist Henry Prinzen shares how the company's soybean research program is building on what it has learned about ammonium sulphate (AMS) by evaluating controlled-release phosphorus, variety selection, seeding rates, and fungicide applications as part of an integrated high-management system.
The Road to 300-Bushel Corn
From high-yielding soybeans to high-yielding corn! The great Dr. Fred Below shared his greatest hits for high corn yields at the Univ. of Illinois Crop Physiology Field Day earlier this month.
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