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Boost Yields by Feeding the Plant, Not the Soil and Choosing Hybrids Conducive to Banding

Indiana strip-tiller takes a systematic approach to boosting corn yields with hybrid selection favoring banded fertilizer, increased plant populations and concentrated efforts to maintain plant health.
By Dan Crummett posted on September 26, 2022 | Posted in Nutrient Management

Over the past 5 years, Chris Perkins has been challenging conventional wisdom in corn production with a systems-approach banding program that has bumped yields on his southwestern Indiana farm by an additional 50-60 bushels per acre.


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Slashing Fuel Costs and Field Passes with Strip-Till

Southern California grower Tom Barcellos experienced a “blessing in disguise” when a tractor breakdown at planting time pushed him to switch from conventional tillage to no-till and later to strip-till.
By Dan Crummett posted on July 17, 2021 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Equipment, Nutrient Management, Soil Health
Until 2000, Tom Barcellos was a conventional farmer like all of his neighbors in Tulare County in south-central California. 


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Adding Strip-Till Acres, Subtracting Costs Equals Escalating Production

Moisture retention and fuel savings are major reasons Gruhlkey Farms in the Texas Panhandle makes extensive use of strip-till on their growing 8,000-acre irrigated operation.
By Dan Crummett posted on March 12, 2019 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Water Management
In 2013, the Gruhlkey brothers of Wildorado, Texas, were all in their 20s when they kicked off their own irrigated farming operation based on the latest water-use efficiency methods available to them at the time and strip-till management they had been using on their farm since 2007.
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Cutting Fertilizer Application Costs with a Precision Strip-Till System

High Plains Kansas operation Kramer Seed Farms moves to strip-till to save labor and fuel and finds up to $67 savings per-acre in nitrogen.
By Dan Crummett posted on September 14, 2018 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Nutrient Management, Precision Agriculture
Ben McClure was a recent ag economics graduate from Kansas State University when he went to work for Kramer Seed Farms in southwestern Kansas near Hugoton in 2003. His arrival came just as the multigenerational family farm was about to embark on a series of changes that has radically altered its farming operation, and significantly boosted its financial well-being.
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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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Strip-Till Makes Good Match for Farming Flat with Surface Irrigation

San Joaquin Valley dairy ditches the dikes to water and plant on flat fields, using strip-till to cut labor and fuel costs in half and achieve better timing on planting and pest control.
By Dan Crummett posted on September 27, 2016 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming 101
San Joaquin Valley dairy ditches the dikes to water and plant on flat fields, using strip-till to cut labor and fuel costs in half and achieve better timing on planting and pest control.
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Strip-Till & Cover Crops Transform Texas Grain Farm

By Dan Crummett posted on May 24, 2016 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Nutrient Management, Water Management
It’s said “necessity is the mother of invention” and that “adversity can be a blessing in disguise.” The extreme drought across the Southern Plains in 2011 and 2012 provided a lot of “necessity and adversity” and Bill Weems says he’s one of a number of farmers in the middle of the Texas Panhandle who are better off for the experience.
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