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 ...

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 ...

ST. ANSGAR, Iowa — Five Mitchell and Floyd County farmers are sold on strip-till. They shared their experiences during the recent North Iowa Tillage Field Day at St. Ansgar. The event was sponsored by ...

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 ...

WINDOM, Minn. — The corn and beans had already pushed their way through the stubble. Farmers from across southern Minnesota walked the strip-tilled fields last week during the Conservation Tillage ...

I moved here in 2012 and am appalled at the use of fall tillage by some farmers on fields next to houses, schools, churches and strip malls. There is no excuse for this. No till and ridge till in the ...

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and the Illinois Department of Agriculture have announced $67 million in funding to offer cost-share/financial incentives to producers and landowners who ...

Crop growers will get an update on the latest advancement in strip tillage at this year’s fall field day at Iowa State University’s Agricultural Engineering and Agronomy Research Farms, to be held ...

Left: examples of cover crops with radishes, oats, and buckwheat. Right: strip-till with soybeans growing in a cereal rye cover. (Photos from Chase Brown) After the deadly I-55 dirt storm, an Illinois ...

ST. PAUL -- Hear the latest University of Minnesota research and information on strip tillage and compare strip-tillage equipment in action through field demonstrations at the 2009 "Minnesota Strip ...