Several reduced tillage practices include vertical-till, strip-till, zone-till, and no-till. Reducing tillage means exactly what you think — making fewer passes through the field and/or decreasing the ...
Editor’s Note: This is a continuation of Steps to Strip-Till Success (Part 1). Weed control. If you switch from conventional tillage to strip-till, you may need to manage winter annual weeds in the ...
There are several schools of thought on tillage. For University of Minnesota Extension Regional Crops Educator Jodi DeJong-Hughes, strip tillage provides some of the easy-warming, clear field area ...
July 22, 2015 - How does style of tilling make a difference in crop success? The blades on a till don't simply chop up soil and move it around. They blend dead plant material left from harvest into ...
ST. ANSGAR, Iowa — Strip-tillage saves time, money and soil, but it isn’t a one size fits all system, says Mahdi Al-Kaisi, Iowa State University Extension soil management specialist. He participated ...
University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences The practice of deep banding fertilizer is growing in popularity as more growers turn to strip-till. However, this ...
WEST FARGO, N.D. — Interest in using a strip till management system to grow sugarbeets is growing. North Dakota State University has renewed its research, which originally was conducted between 2007 ...
SIDNEY, MT – An important two-year research project is underway at Montana State University's Eastern Ag Research Center in Sidney, Mont., comparing conventional till sugarbeet planting to no-till and ...