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Tips For Soil Sampling In Strip-Till

By Dan Zinkand posted on January 30, 2013 | Posted in Nutrient Management
After reading recent questions from readers of Strip-Till Strategies about soil-sampling procedures and nitrogen credits -- as well as nitrogen rates in strip-tilled corn following soybeans - Orthman Mfg. Co. lead agronomist Mike Petersen offered some recommendations.
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Strip-Tillers Keeping Seeing Better Fuel Efficiency

By Dan Zinkand posted on December 13, 2012 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming 101
After reading the request for reports on fuel efficiency in the last issue of Strip-Till Strategies, Minnesota strip-tiller Rod Sommerfield shared this good news. Sommerfield farms 35 miles southeast of Northfield, Minn., and uses a 12-row Red Ball stripper set to 30-inch spacings, pulled with a 245-horsepower tractor and Flexicoil air cart behind the strip-till unit for fertilizer application.
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Don't Let The Drought Sink Strip-Till Profits

By Dan Zinkand posted on August 23, 2012 | Posted in Soil Health
This week's lead story includes specific recommendations from Iowa farmer and tillage consultant Kevin Kimberley on how strip-tillers can cope successfully with the bone-dry, rock-hard fields they'll be facing this fall in much of the Midwest and Great Plains.
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Looking Forward To the 2013 Harvest During The 2012 Drought

By Dan Zinkand posted on July 25, 2012 | Posted in Nutrient Management
Having 200 farmers, agronomists and other agri-business people at a recent summer field day represents a great turnout in any year, but it may be even more noteworthy this summer. To me, it was heartening to hear that last week's residue management field day sponsored by the Hancock Soil & Water Conservation District in western Illinois drew that many people. It means that despite the drought, people are looking ahead
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Using Strip-Till To Manage Residue

By Dan Zinkand posted on July 11, 2012 | Posted in Seeding & Planting
When I met Jay Petty at a strip-till meeting last June, the Pasco, Wash., farmer was still evaluating strip-till. That evaluation meant working with a salesman at a local Deere dealership, watching fields being strip-tilled and talking with a strip-tiller.
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