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Practices That Help Reduce Soil Compaction

April 11, 2014 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: Penn State Extension, Sjoerd Duiker

The pressure is on with a short time window to do field work before planting season begins.

Strip-Till Considerations In Oklahoma

April 4, 2014 | Posted in Soil Health, Water Management

Source: Oklahoma State University

Conservation tillage practices are used throughout the southern Great Plains to reduce soil erosion and conserve soil moisture.

Drought Could Impact Soil Rhizobia Populations

December 26, 2012 | Posted in Nutrient Management

Source: Shawn Conley, University of Wisconsin

Severe drought conditions reduced soybean yields last year by an average of 6.2% from 2011. The implications of the 2012 drought may progress well into the 2013 growing season.

9 Tips For Successful Strip-Tilling

By Dan Zinkand posted on August 23, 2012 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming 101

Tile drainage, patience and state and federal financial incentives are some of the things that make strip-till work, says Northfield, Minn., strip-tiller David Legvold, who is one of the speakers at the 2012 National No-Tillage Conference.

South Dakota Corn Grower Uses Radishes To Mimic Strip-Till

August 23, 2012 | Posted in Soil Health

Raleigh Leesman, who farms in Hughes County, S.D., seeded strips of radishes as cover crop into winter-wheat stubble last summer to simulate what's called "natural" strip till.

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