The reality of changing soil conditions and varying crop needs often requires more middle ground than most tillage systems are designed to deliver.

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I sat down to write this piece after a five-inch April snowstorm gave our newly planted wheat fields their first drink of the season. Wheat is one of five crops we raise on our farm just outside ...

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 ...

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The strip-till system performed well on both. Flynn figures the strip-till program saved five passes across the field - two primary tillage passes (disk-ripping) at $20 to $25; mulching passes at $10 ...

To till or not to till? That is the question. Looking over fields prior to planting, a Shakespeare-in-overalls might also wonder: “Whether ‘tis nobler to till and suffer the slings and arrows of soil ...