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[Podcast] Learning from Trial and Error to Transform a Strip-Till System

This week we're joined by Nickerson, Neb., farmers Kirk Brand and Brent Willnerd, who discuss the hard learned lessons they've experienced following their adoption of strip-till on their combined operation four years ago.
December 14, 2017 | Posted in Cover Crops, Nutrient Management, Seeding & Planting
This week we're joined by Nickerson, Neb., farmers Kirk Brand and Brent Willnerd, who discuss the hard learned lessons they've experienced following their adoption of strip-till on their combined operation four years ago.
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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
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.
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For Cover Crop Creativity, the Best is Yet to Come

Trial and error trumps comfort zone complacence in strip-tiller Trent Sanderson’s perpetual pursuit of cover cropping innovation.
By James DeGraff posted on October 30, 2017 | Posted in Cover Crops
The greatest of growing seasons has little effect on Trent Sanderson’s approach to cover crops across his family’s 2,000-acre corn, soybean and wheat operation in Clare, Ill. In his mind, more can always be done to maximize the value of every field, whether it’s a new seed variety, application method or frugal machinery investments.
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Strip-Till Farmer delivers a mix of features on strip-till farmers, strip-till management topics and trending practices in strip-till. This FREE quarterly print newsletter is available to qualified subscribers in the U.S. and Canada. 
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No-Tiller Plants Entire Corn Crop with Driverless Tractor

No-Tiller Plants Entire Corn Crop with Driverless Tractor

On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Titan International, we catch up with young Kentucky no-tiller Quint Pottinger to see how he autonomously planted his entire crop in 2026. Senior editor John Dobberstein checks in from the CTIC Conservation in Action Tour in Scotland Neck, N.C., where no-tiller Zeb Winslow III talks about his multi-species cover crop program.

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