Global Neighbor’s Directed Energy Flora Control (DEFC) uses a blend of light, applied in high intensities for short durations, to affect plants and seeds.

Strip-tiller, president and general manager of HTS Ag and 2024 Precision Farming Dealer Most Valuable Dealership Award winner Adam Gittins discusses which precision technologies provide the most bang for your buck and how to leverage new planter and sprayer technologies to increase strip-till efficiency in his classroom session, "Most Valuable Precision Technologies for Your Strip-Till Operation."

The new T6 800 walker combine includes many features from the X9 and S7 Series combines with the latest integrated precision ag technology.

Salin 247's lightweight, electric-powered planter planted corn in a strip-tilled field for an Iowa State University nitrogen study.

On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Martin-Till, precision specialist Chad Baker, co-owner of Baker Precision Planter Works in Orangeville, Ill., helps a first-generation no-tiller with planter setup, and later encounters a couple problems with a strip-tiller’s new 24-row planter. Plus, veteran agronomist Brad Forkner checks in with a couple tips for farmers to keep in mind before they take the field.

"Balancing savings and effective management of troublesome weed species will be a major challenge with these novel precision application systems," says Rodrigo Werle, associate professor and extension cropping systems weed scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.