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How Are You Getting the Job Done with Today's Extra-Wide Combine Headers?

By Noah Newman posted on September 3, 2024 | Posted in Equipment, Residue Management

Recognizing the enormous value of getting stalks, straw and chaff across the full width of the combine header, we asked readers in the No-Till Farmer email discussion group — how are you getting the job done with today’s extra-wide 40 to 60-foot headers? Check out the responses here.

High-Tech Tools To Manage No-Till Residue From The Combine

New technologies are coming online to help no-tillers spread residue evenly across ever-growing header widths, and set the stage for successful no-till planting the following season.

By John Dobberstein posted on August 1, 2014 | Posted in Equipment, Residue Management

Had someone told Kelly Kravig 20 years ago that 500-horsepower combines would be rumbling through fields at harvest, the Case IH combine marketing manager and western Kansas grain farmer would have been skeptical at the very least.

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Fix Little Things To Boost Combine Performance

Checking belts, chains, elevators, fluids and more are important tasks before no-tillers take to the fields for harvest.

By Jim Leverich posted on August 1, 2012 | Posted in Equipment

Pre-season combine maintenance not only saves you time at harvest, but may also help you harvest more grain.

Roll, Flatten, Crimp, Chop And Kill

Three veteran no-tillers share how they use rollers, crimpers and choppers to manage corn stalks and cover crops.

By Dan Zinkland posted on July 1, 2010 | Posted in Cover Crops, Equipment, Precision Agriculture

Corn stalks puncturing new and slightly worn tires on the tractor and corn planter of Kansas no-tiller Terry Jacob pushed him to find a solution that would save money on tires.

Strip-Tillers Putting Manure In Its Place

Injecting manure into strips allows more efficient use of manure, increases yields and creates a positive public perception of farmers

By Dan Zinkland posted on May 1, 2010 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming

Strip-tilling and applying manure simultaneously may make as much sense as other dynamic duos in agriculture, like corn and soybeans, ham and eggs and “rain makes grain.”

Strip-Till Right The First Time

But first learn what will work and won’t work under your farming conditions.

By Susan K. Davis posted on October 1, 2005 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming

When it comes to strip-tilling effectively, Tony and Doug Anderson benefit from both farming and equipment dealer experience. Besides farming 2,500 acres, the brothers own Anderson Equipment, a shortline dealership selling planting and tillage equipment at Washington Court House, Ohio.

With Right Tools, No-Tilling Tomatoes A Reality

A Pennsylvania no-tiller uses Buffalo rolling stalk chopper and a specially designed planter to transplant no-till tomatoes into a cover crop.

By Darrell Bruggink posted on August 1, 1998 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

Some 15 years ago, no-tilling tomatoes wasn’t even thought to be possible. But no-tiller Steve Groff has found huge success transplanting tomatoes into a thick cover crop with the aid of a Buffalo rolling stalk chopper and no-till planter developed at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI).

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