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Taming Wheat Residue, Targeting Fertility With Strip-Till

Strip-till helps Ontario’s Ken and Kevin Nixon manage heavy wheat stubble and efficiently band phosphorus and potassium in fall.
By Jack Zemlicka posted on February 7, 2014 | Posted in Nutrient Management
The unpredictable climate often provides enough moisture to maintain a healthy crop throughout the growing season, but also challenges the Nixons to plan accordingly with fertility and residue-management strategies so they can be ready to plant in a timely manner.
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Best Of Both Worlds

Using cover crops with strip-tillage helps growers improve the crop-row environment, build soil organic matter and protect fields from erosion
By Dan Zinkand posted on January 14, 2014 | Posted in Cover Crops
Using cover crops with strip-tillage helps growers improve the crop-row environment, build soil organic matter and protect fields from erosion
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Pioneer Demonstrates New Field360 Select Software

December 23, 2013 | Posted in Equipment, Precision Agriculture
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.
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Transitioning from Zone-Till to Strip-Till

December 23, 2013 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming 101, Equipment
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.
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