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A New Take On Strip-Till

By Dan Zinkand posted on April 22, 2012 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming 101
There are many innovative ways people can use strip-till, and that includes "bio strip-till," or "bio-drilling" using cover crops. With this practice, strip-tillers use forage radishes and other cover crops to create voids in the soil, rather than using a strip-till rig.
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New Company Aims To Help No-Tillers Expand

By John Dobberstein posted on April 22, 2012 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming 101
A group of farmers and investors is spearheading an effort to help no-tillers expand their operations. Fall Line Farms (FLF) is offering to become capital partners for no-tillers who don't have the resources to buy farmland - either because current prices are economically unfeasible or because they're already highly leveraged but still need to grow.
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Researchers Take Closer Look At Kip Cullers' System

April 22, 2012 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming 101
Source: Mary Hightower, University of Arkansas
University of Arkansas researchers visited Kip Cullers' contest field with the intent of documenting crop growth characteristics that would result in these yields, and study yield potential of soybeans under intensive management on a large scale with strip trials in eastern Arkansas.
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