A few weeks ago, several readers indicated that National Resource and Conservation Service (NRCS) staffers in Nebraska are against funding strip-till projects. Instead, they’re attempting to make pure continuous no-till the favored tillage system.

Strip-tilled corn and soybeans yielded approximately $5 and $26 per acre more, respectively, than conventionally tilled corn and soybeans in onfarm research in Iowa in 2010.

Strip-tilling and deep-banding nitrogen and phosphate increased corn grain yield vs. conventional-tillage and conventional fertilizer placement methods in highly eroded low fertile soils in 2007 research at the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service Northwest Irrigation & Soils Research Laboratory at Kimberly, Idaho.

Remote sensing will enable scientists to see if winter cover crops are improving water quality in the Chesapeake Bay.

Corn yields dropped 6 bushels per acre for every inch of driving error away from the edge of the strip, according to an Oklahoma State University research study.