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About a half dozen farmers in Walsh County, North Dakota, are conducting on-farm research trials on various methods including, minimum till, strip till and “green planting,” which is planting row crops, such as sugarbeets, into growing crops.
Crop growers will get an update on the latest advancement in strip tillage at this year’s fall field day at Iowa State University’s Agricultural Engin
Conservation on heavy soils Guided by GPS, a sugar beet seed was planted this spring in the middle of a 9-inch wide “strip” of vertically-tilled soil, created last fall by a Soil Warrior machine on the Gudajtes Family Farms near Minto, N.D. Photo taken April 30, 2021, Minto, N.D. Mikkel Pates / AgweekThe Gudajtes' acres are spread out 40 miles north to south. The land they control more than five miles south of their farmstead had received some rain, but as May rolled around, most of their northern lands were extremely dry. The Gudajteses operate on heavier soil...