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Mixing and Matching Inputs and Rotations

January 4, 2018 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Soil Health

Source: Alexis Stockford, Manitoba Co-operator

Brandon researchers spent 18 years combining three different input levels and crop rotations to study the impact on nutrients, soil quality, yield and implications for climate change.

Mentorships Share Value of Cover Crops in Cattle Operation

December 29, 2017 | Posted in Cover Crops, Soil Health

Source: Connie Sieh Groop, The Green Sheet Farm Forum

To help young people understand the roots of agriculture, Trevor Zantow hosted Leola ag students to his farm where he explained the importance of soil health in his operation.

Don’t Surrender Your Challenging Soils: Strip-Till Them

By Jack Zemlicka posted on December 20, 2017 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming 101, Soil Health

Walking fields with strip-tillers, we’ll often end up in some of their top producing acres, digging our hands into thriving soils checkered with worm holes and covered with decomposing crop residue.

Reviving Stubborn Soils with Strip Till

December 15, 2017 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Soil Health

Strip-tilling stubborn soils can pose challenges, but also payoff with increased yields. Nickerson, Neb., farmer Brent Willnerd shares a few examples of how turned poorly producing fields into some of the more productive acreage on the farm with a transition to strip-till.

Nutrient Uptake in Corn

December 11, 2017 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Soil Health

Source: By Stephen D. Strachan, Ph.D., DuPont Research Scientist

Nutrient uptake from the soil is a seven-step process, requiring input from the plant with participating elements of the roots, energy input, and vascular tissues.

California Strip-Tiller Recognized with Conservation Award

November 22, 2017 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Soil Health, Water Management

In a recent meeting of San Joaquin Valley NRCS and Resource Conservation Districts leaders held at the Wool Growers’ Restaurant in Los Banos, Calif., the 2017 Conservation Agriculture Farmer Innovator Award was presented to Chowchilla, Calif. farmer, Michael McRee.

Easing the Soil’s Temperature with Cover Crops

November 8, 2017 | Posted in Cover Crops, Seeding & Planting, Soil Health

Research has shown that both cover crops and perennial biofuel crops can relieve soil compaction. Cover crops are generally planted between cash crops such as corn and soybeans to protect the bare soil.

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[Podcast] A Surgery Without a Scar Approach to Strip-Tilling

This week we welcome strip-tiller Dustin Mulock to discuss how his extensive experimentation with equipment setups helped him to find the optimal operating speed and performance of his strip-till rig.

November 2, 2017 | Posted in Cover Crops, Equipment, Soil Health

This week we welcome strip-tiller Dustin Mulock to discuss how his extensive experimentation with equipment setups helped him to find the optimal operating speed and performance of his strip-till rig.

ZoneNinja, The Newest Innovation From the Creators of the SoilWarrior

November 1, 2017 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Soil Health, Strip-Till Equimpent

Environmental Tillage Systems (ETS), the creator of the SoilWarrior, announces the launch of the all new ZoneNinja, a dual-purpose tool that can freshen zones one day and convert to side-dress the next

Cutting Nitrogen Costs by 40% with Strip-Till

Mark Ricker has seen yields grow, soil health improve and applied nutrient usage fall since switching from no-till to strip-till more than 20 years ago.

By Dan Crummett posted on October 30, 2017 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Soil Health

Mark Ricker switched from no-till to strip-till in 1995 and in the ensuing 22 years he has continually improved his yields, while at the same time, cut his fertilizer purchases by 40%.

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Mixing and Matching Inputs and Rotations

Mentorships Share Value of Cover Crops in Cattle Operation

Don’t Surrender Your Challenging Soils: Strip-Till Them

Reviving Stubborn Soils with Strip Till

Nutrient Uptake in Corn

California Strip-Tiller Recognized with Conservation Award

Easing the Soil’s Temperature with Cover Crops

[Podcast] A Surgery Without a Scar Approach to Strip-Tilling

ZoneNinja, The Newest Innovation From the Creators of the SoilWarrior

Cutting Nitrogen Costs by 40% with Strip-Till

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