Summers Manufacturing, Devils Lake, North Dakota, has launched its new strip till equipment line featuring two distinct models: the Verdant and the Apex. These high-performance units are designed to ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – When it comes to preparing a field for planting, farmers usually fall into one of two camps: those who till it all, and those who leave it all untilled. There is a middle ground ...

Conservation tillage practices such as no-till and strip tillage play a key role in soil health and resilience. But ...

More farmers are showing interest in and using an approach called bio strip-till, where specific cover crops are planted in individual strips after the harvest of an early season crop. Goals for using ...

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 ...

The event sponsored by the Minnesota Office of Soil Health, NRCS and local SWCD's includes a workshop at the Bayer Crop Science Research Farm and two-days at the National Strip-Tillage Conference.

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 approximately 65% of farmers across the U.S., conventional or minimum-tillage practices are part of their management strategy. With that in mind, John Deere introduces the ST series of strip-till ...

KERKHOVEN — With the goal of decreasing soil erosion and increasing the health of the soil that produces his corn and soybean crops, Harmon Wilts is preparing to begin a three-year experiment with ...

After just five years, soil organic matter content was 8.6 percent greater in the strip-till plots when compared to the no-till plots. Furthermore, bulk density was reduced by 4 percent and ...