A longtime crop consultant and OEM equipment marketer-turned-manufacturer lays out the basics of strip-till ground-engaging tool designs and how to choose the best for your needs.
Bill Preller says knives are most prevalent in areas where strip-till evolved from converted anhydrous ammonia applicators and are more typical in central and northern Corn Belt fields.
SIMPAS Technologies Technical Representative Cory Ritter describes the unique qualities to the new Smart Integrated Multi-Product Prescription Application System (SIMPAS). Comparing the new systems functionality to that of an Ink-Jet printer, SIMPAS can accurately apply up to three different products in one pass through its precision application.
Founder and CEO Craig Ganssle illustrates how Farmwave uses autonomy alongside a multi-camera system to count grain loss in realtime. Front and back mounted cameras continually register and document individual kernels that fail to be harvested, which the system will extrapolate to determine the percentage loss per bushel in real time. With this information farmers can make adjustments to manage loss wherein they can immediately see the results if the changes and prevent or reduce the yield loss.
Steve Martin grew up on his dad Howard’s farm raising tobacco, corn, wheat and soybeans. After trying no-till farming in the early 1970s, Howard Martin wasn’t satisfied with the results he was seeing. Roughly a decade later, he decided to give it another try.
Gregg Sauder could be on a beach sipping a Mai Tai right now after selling Precision Planting for $250 million in 2012. But that’s just not in his DNA. An unrelenting drive and passion to help farmers succeed pushes him to keep grinding.
The late owner of Yetter Manufacturing, Pat Whalen, says it was a “natural progression,” the way that his grandfather first got the company off the ground and his grandparents were able to start the company in 1930 during the Great Depression.
According to second-generation Duo Lift President Jim Hellbusch, the company owes its existence to 2 things: his dad Arthur’s sore back and a load of corn stuck in a wagon box.
Steve Tesarik, who farms corn for silage, soybeans and wheat in Whitelaw, Wis., takes pride in making strip-till equipment modifications with a purpose.
Into his fourth year of early planting strip-tilled soybeans on a few acres of his 2,200-acre operation, Beaver Dam, Wis., strip-tiller Ryan Nell shares the motivation, expectations and results of his ongoing trials, which in 2020 included a small plot of soybeans planted on Dec. 10.
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On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Titan International, we pay a visit to Strip-Till Innovator Robert Boyle’s farm in Coolidge, Ariz., for an up-close look at how he’s transforming his soils with cover crops and diverse rotations.
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