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Strip-Till Highlights: September 29, 2026

By Noah Newman posted on September 28, 2026

This Week's Lineup:

  • Strip-Till a Staple for Ohio Conservation Award Recipient
  • Mother Nature Tells Strip-Tiller to ‘Hold My Beer’ with Weeds
  • Cover Crop Planting Underway for Strip-Till Innovator
  • Moving from No-Tilled to Strip-Tilled Corn-on-Corn
  • Don’t Finish Harvest Without Checking These Things…

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Strip-Till Highlights: September 22, 2026

By Noah Newman posted on September 22, 2026

This Week's Lineup:

  • Strip-Till Taking Off in Illinois
  • Strip-Till ‘Lobe Rangers’ Group Appears on PBS
  • Pros & Cons of Running Dry & Anhydrous at the Same Time?
  • New Strip-Till Equipment on Display at Farm Progress Show
  • What Farmers Need to Change for 2027

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Maryland Leopold Conservation Award Recipients Improve Water Quality with Strip-Till

March 29, 2025 | Posted in Cover Crops, Soil Health, Water Management
Source: Sand County Foundation
The Hutchisons' use of variable-rate nitrogen applications onto crops are split up through the growing season to boost yields while reducing the potential for runoff. To further protect water quality, they practice mulch and strip-till practices, have installed grassed waterways and buffers, and have completed wetland restoration projects and forest management.
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5 Things to Know About Removal-Based P & K Strategies

November 11, 2022 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Soil Health
Source: University of Minnesota Extension
"One concern I have is that some growers treat their P and K like balancing a checkbook, trying to calculate what is taken off the field and putting that amount back on in fertilizer. In almost all cases, this type of accuracy is not needed for removal-based guidelines," says nutrient management specialist Dan Kaiser.
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EPA to Accelerate Nutrient Pollution Reduction

April 6, 2022 | Posted in Nutrient Management
Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Assistant Administrator for Water Radhika Fox released April 5 a new policy memorandum on Accelerating Nutrient Pollution Reductions in the Nation's Waters. This memo reaffirms EPA's commitment to working with others, including the agriculture community, to advance progress in reducing excess nutrients in the nation's waters.


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