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Just When Did The Idea Of Strip-Till Begin?

May 30, 2012 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming 101
Let me say from the outset: I don't know for sure whose idea was developed into modern-day strip-till. But I was intrigued to find a 50-year-old report describing strip-till research and testing done by the University of Missouri from 1956 to 1962.
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Strip-Tiller: 'I Am Not Going Back To Tillage'

By Dan Zinkand posted on April 23, 2012 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming 101
At first, Michigan farmer Jim Millett liked using the Rawson zone system for planting corn, but he found the weather didn't always cooperate. When strip-till machines became available in the late 1990s, Millett and his father demoed two strip-till rigs before choosing a Progressive machine.
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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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