“Nitrogen plays a role in chlorophyll formation — the greenness in plants — which allows them to absorb sunlight more effectively. Chlorophyll is a plant’s energy manufacturing system,” said Warren Formo, executive director of the Minnesota Agricultural Water Resource Center.
Three strip-tillers share their thoughts on how they utilize strip-tilling to maximize poorer soils and get more return on their fertilizer, cover crop and equipment investments.
Strip-tilling combines precision tillage technology and efficient nutrient management to achieve operation goals, whether those are yield-based or soil health-centric.
Nutrient management decisions can become difficult when land tenure comes into play. While the soil is typically thought of as a “bank” that stores nutrients such as phosphorus (P) and potassium (K), the bank analogy isn’t completely accurate.
Nutrient management, reverse osmosis and pesticide reduction contribute to Iowa strip-tiller Keith Schlapkohl’s quest for consistently increasing corn-on-corn yields.
Soilgenic Technologies is making nitrogen fertilizer more efficient and effectively reducing its emissions with the launch of its new Visio-N Supra technology, which contains 40% NBPT.
"I just ordered a system with a twin bin dry fertilizer system. I would like to make 1 pass in the fall. Does anyone have a problem with putting on urea in the fall, or are there other ways to apply N that I haven't thought of yet?"
Greg Entinger calls himself an accidental conservationist. When he first started strip-tilling, the grower from New Prague, Minn., wasn’t doing it because he was on the soil health bandwagon. He was looking to save money.
By collecting soil samples by the inch, veteran no-tiller Marion Calmer pinpointed why he was seeing nutrient deficiencies in his crops, despite soil tests indicating otherwise.
It was at the 2017 National No-Tillage Conference that Marion Calmer began to wonder if stratification was a problem on his no-till farm in Alpha, Ill.
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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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