One-pass tillage 

The One Pass TerraTill breaks up compacted soil while cutting heavy residue. The special angle-leg lifts dirt to prevent major fracturing and produces...

FinOvation 2009 

By: By Karen McMahon, David Hest, Mark Moore

SmartStax Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences collaborated to produce a new eight-trait stack of genes in a hybrid that they expect to bring to the market in...

New From Sunbelt 2008 

By: By Karen McMahon

Stacker bar A NEW 1925 Stacker Bar from Orthman Manufacturing is semi-mounted with rear lift wheels. The stack-style toolbar for 24 rows, 30-in. widths...

New From the Fall Shows 

By: By Mark Moore

Cornstalk baling VERMEER SHOWCASED its new Super M Cornstalk Special at the Farm Progress show in Boone, IA. The cornstalk baler has a powered feed system...

Wider tillage tool 

HCC has added a 20-ft. model, the Smart-Till ST-203, to its line of vertical tillage implements. The new Smart-Till’s patented self-sharpening, three-tine helical design fractures soil more than 8 in. deep, and the tines adjust from 0 to 10 ...

Conserve and Profit 

By: By Lynn Grooms

In a recent survey, 60% of approximately 2,000 farmers said they have adopted nutrient management plans, and more than half said they have fully adopted...

Cash from carbon 

By: By Mark Moore

Tom Recker doesn't consider himself on the cutting edge. But this Alta Vista, IA, producer already has two years of experience in the emerging carbon...

Correction 

The phone number given to us for Ag Solutions, maker of the Quick Drain system, was incorrect (Fast field drainage, March, page 22). The correct phone...

Equation for green farming 

By: By David Hest

If You want to farm green, two decisions about how you grow your crops are likely to have the biggest impact on achieving your goal how much tillage you...

Stubble Multivator 

By: Jeff Ryan

The Stubble Multivator, a tillage tool from Bute Engineering in Australia, is designed to level soil for seedbed preparation or size stubble in a single...