When it comes to nutrient management, Deweese, Neb., farmer Brian Herbek lives by the 4R philosophy. As a fifth-generation farmer on a dryland and irrigated 1,900-acre corn and soybean operation, he’s focused on slowly evolving his practices over the years to become more efficient.

Jackson Stansell, Founder and CEO of Sentinel Fertigation describes his new software platform, N-TIME. A nutrient management platform, N-TIME focuses on nitrogen recommendation for farmers, specifically those applying fertilizer in season. By analyzing multiple sources of satellite imagery, N-TIME isolates the impact nitrogen has on potential yields, tracks nitrogen sufficiency and determines a seven day nitrogen demand for the observed crops.

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Strip-tilling continuous corn may sound daunting to many farmers, but Stillman Valley, Ill., strip-tiller Cade Bushnell believes it’s worth the investment of time, energy and strategic planning needed to make it economically worthwhile.

The 3-year study compared conventional till broadcast, no-till broadcast and strip-till banded systems, and different application rates of MAP and potash with each system.

I’m coming up on my 40th year of independent on-farm research. We have silty loam soils, dark in color and poorly drained, but also very productive.

When strip-tillers and researchers talk about the benefits of soil microbes populating the root zone of field crops, the conversation generally revolves around more efficient plant use of nitrogen and potential reductions in losses of plant life’s hard-to-hang-onto primary food source.