When fourth-generation farmer Lance Saathoff climbs into the cab of his 510-horsepower John Deere tractor, he's in a control center that's guided by distant satellites to fraction-of-an-inch precision ...

For farmers looking to maintain the benefits of vertical tillage while enjoying some of the soil health impacts of no-till, strip tillage is a popular option. With strip tillage, the seedbed for next ...

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 ...

Farmers detail how they navigated the strip-till learning curve and offer some tips you’ll want to know before making the move.

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 ...

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 ...

The debate between conventional tillage and no-till has farmers considering environmental benefits and creating an optimal seed bed by burying crop residue. Strip tillage might provide a middle ground ...

Satisfactory Crop Residue Management Is a Key for the Carlquists of Southern Idaho By Don Lilleboe Doug and Melanie Carlquist were among a sizable contingent of Idaho sugarbeet producers who attended ...

Tilling the soil has become a farming tradition, especially with growing corn. Spring tillage warms the soil because each tillage pass reduces soil moisture by 0.5 to1.0-acre inch. It takes 10 times ...

Strip tillage is a conservation tillage practice involving minimum tillage to create a seedbed condition that disturbs only the portion of the soil to contain the seed row. The no-till area has crop ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Soil conservation concerns have piqued Red River Valley sugarbeet farmers' interest in using the strip tillage method to raise their crop. Farmers who grow sugarbeets for American ...