Rob Zemenchik, marketing manager for crop production equipment at Case IH, discusses the new AccuDrive seed meter cable drive system for new 5 Series Case IH Early Riser planters.
For Ontario farmer Blake Vince, taking a leap with strip-till practices helped him improve corn yields, preserve soil moisture and reduce expenditures on high-dollar fuel and fertilizer.
Manufacturers and early adopters are working out the kinks for this technology, which would let farmers pair different brands of tractors and implements and reduce confusion and clutter in the cab.
Source: Archana Pant, Koon-Hui Wang and Theodore J.K. Radovich
University of Hawaii research summarizes the effect of strip-till cover cropping and vermicompost water extract on soil food web structure in a short-term agroecosystem.
Nathan Paul, services application manager with DuPont Pioneer, gives a demonstration of the capabilities of Pioneer's Field360 Select application. Field360, released earlier in 2013, is a subscription-based service that gathers a variety of data types and makes that data easily available through the internet on desktop and mobile devices.
Ricky Kratz, Slinger, Wis., strip-tiller, shares the new technology they have added to their farm, how it has improved planting and how soon they were able to receive results from their investments.
Ricky Kratz, Slinger, Wis., strip-tiller, talks about his transition into strip-till. After several years of zone-tilling about 2,000 acres of corn with a three-coulter Rawson system, they found stress on the 12-row Kinze 2600 planter they were using was costing them time and yield potential.
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.
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On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Yetter Farm Equipment, Ohio State Univ. retired ag engineer and No-Till Innovator Randall Reeder discusses the true cost of erosion, and why no-till and cover crops would help cut down on dust storms.
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