Slashing Fuel Costs and Field Passes with Strip-Till
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Until 2000, Tom Barcellos was a conventional farmer like all of his neighbors in Tulare County in south-central California.
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The Swartz family has been strip-tilling for 30 years, if not longer, in Emington, Ill. Fifth-generation farmer Craig Swartz reflects on his family’s strip-till journey “We continue to try to improve the system because with strip-till corn it saves so much on labor, fuel and time that it’s just changed our operation in so many ways,” Swartz says. “I’m a single parent, so strip-till is great. I don’t have to worry about extra guys. It’s fast for me, and I can make it to ball games and do other stuff, and it’s just less headaches.”
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Historically, the Institute’s scientists have been concerned about the rapid rise in chemical use on the majority of farmland across the United States and
Strip-Till & Banded Fertilizer Boost ROI
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Since becoming the sole operators of their family’s Homewood Farms in 2000, Dan Lane and his wife, Jennifer, have used precision practices and conservation tillage to significantly boost corn and so...