For a typical farmer, accuracy is important. But, for strip-tillers, it’s make or break. A strip-tiller has to know precisely where their strips are every single time they roll across the field.
Strip-Till Farmer editors racked up the steps at the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Ky., this week. Here are some of our top takeaways from the show.
Steve Martin, Martil-Till president, provides an up-close look at the company’s new hydraulic row cleaner system at the 2024 National Farm Machinery Show.
Curtis Hillen, combine product marketing manager for New Holland, shows off the company’s new CR11 combine at the 2024 National Farm Machinery Show. The CR11 combine is equipped with the Intellispread radar system that automates the spreading control to ensure full and even residue coverage behind the combine, regardless of wind effects, crop or moisture conditions.
“Our phones have been ringing like crazy,” said Greg Vandike, service manager at Crown Power in Macon, Mo. “Customers are having lots of fuel problems during this cold snap." With two more months of winter ahead, Vandike has a couple recommendations to help nip potential fuel issues.
Strip-till consultant Kevin Kimberley explains how to set up your planter for success year-after-year by being willing to adapt to changing soil and environmental conditions
“Normalization of deviation,” says Kevin Kimberley, an Iowa strip-tiller with over 35 years of experience and owner of Kimberley Ag Consulting. “If you keep deviating from what’s normal over and over again, it becomes the new norm.”
Clay Mitchell, farmer and co-founder of farmland venture capital firm Fall Line Capital, shares how he identifies the best investments for his operation.
“I try and stay on top of what the crop will need before it needs it, and this year was no different,” Ben Kron says. “I harvested November 17 and was happy with the results.”
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On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Bio Till Cover Crops, Bob and Robby Jewell explain how they incorporate wood chips, cover crops and rotational grazing into their Leopold Conservation Award-Winning no-till system in northeast Iowa.
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