Andrea Masella, marketing manager at Trelleborg, talks about the roll-out of the new premium option of Trelleborg tires. Trelleborg took the opportunity of the 2012 Farm Progress Show last week to tout its new agreement with AGCO to supply its customers with the premium option of its 900/60R42 extra large radial tires.

Daryl Peterson, with May Wes Manufacturing, demonstrates switching between 9" and 14" stalk stompers.

Michelin introduces new YIELDBIB Tires at Farm Progress 2012.

New from Case IH at the 2012 Farm Progress Show is the 920 Nutri-Placer Applicator. “We are excited to offer this commercial-quality applicator for producers who want increased productivity and a value-added fertilizer application,� says Dave Long, Case IH Marketing and Sales Manager for pull-type fertilizer applicators.

Luc Van Herle shows us their new Twin Row Planter at Farm Progress.

In the spirit of continuous improvement, we recently asked strip-tillers if they could provide us with some of the beneficial modifications they've made to their strip-till rigs. Whether it's a new manufactured strip-till bar or even an older homemade version, the relative "newness"? of this management technique means many strip-tillers are looking for ways to improve berm building, fertilizer application or precision performance.

Rich Recker, agronomist, Alpine fertilizer in Ontario, talks about increasing corn yields at the FEASTT Fertilizer Efficiency and Strip-Till Tour Aug. 22, 2012.

Yetter Manufacturing features its 30-foot (3830) and 41-foot (3840) toolbars that can be used for sidedressing, strip-till or fertilizer application.

When Joe Brightly came home to the family farm in Hamlin, N.Y., in 2009 after graduating from college, he and his father, Dean, weighed whether they should replace an aging field cultivator and chisel plow with new ones.

Despite wet weather interfering with strip-till last fall, the practice continues to grow in the Corn Belt, Great Plains and western United States, say ag equipment manufacturers.