Lynx Ag debuts a new 36-row 22-inch strip-till bar at the 2024 Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa. Lynx owner Lance Glendenning goes over some of the unique features of the toolbar and why it’s durable for commercial operations. Glendenning also reflects on the evolution of the strip-till market and offers advice for strip-tillers as they prepare for harvest.
New from HFL Fabricating is its TP800S series toolbar, designed for multiple uses including interseeding, sidedressing, strip tilling and seed drilling. Models are available in widths from 10 to 40 feet.
Case IH has introduced the 2140 Early Riser pivot fold planter. Six configurations feature ultra-narrow row spacing options, combined with accurate planting technologies, for high-efficiency planting. Designed to easily transition from an operational width of 44 feet to a transport width of 13.5 feet.
Already becoming known for its superior performance in applying anhydrous ammonia in heavy residue no-till conditions with little to no visible disturbance at 20” and 30” toolbar row spacing options, AgSynergy now offers its Genesis TRX row unit on the DR toolbar model with 15” row spacing.
While many strip-tillers would have preferred to build strips and put down fertilizer in the fall, a late harvest prevented much of the work from being completed.
20 years after inventing the Corn Belt’s version of the strip-till rig, Richard Follmer shares a few of the practice’s advantages and must-do tips and techniques.
If you haven't heard of Richard Follmer, just know that you've probably used a version of his invention if you've used a strip-till unit recently. The owner of Progressive Farm Products in Hudson, Ill., invented the midmount, dual-placement strip-till toolbar that is being used by thousands of Corn Belt farmers.
While most Corn Belt no-tillers grow only corn and soybeans, Charlie Hammer prefers a three-way rotation. The operator of Hammer & Kavazanjian Farms with his wife Nancy Kavazanjian at Beaver Dam, Wis., prefers a no-till rotation evenly split between corn, soybeans and wheat in the farm’s 2,300-acre operation.
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Franck Groeneweg, who no-tills a variety of crops on more than 12,000 acres near Three Forks, Mont., shares how his massive Johnson-Su bioreactor system allows him to apply compost extract in furrow during planting season.
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