Fall Strip Tillage Equipment

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Strip tillage research and demonstrations have been going on for more than a decade. It is fair to say that no particular piece of equipment has done everything we wanted under a wide range of Ontario field conditions. Some of the items on our equipment wish list include:

• Get a machine to handle more challenging residue situations (i.e. higher wheat yields, weeds, volunteer wheat, cover crops etc.)
• reset action on the shank to handle rocks
• knives, sweeps etc. that can boil soil up into a berm without throwing it out of the row zone
• hilling devices that can contain all the soil in the row and actively assist in building a berm
• keep horsepower requirements reasonable (ideally less than 15 HP per row)

Equipment options for strip tillage continue to expand as adoption in the United States grows. The following is a list of websites for those interested in viewing various strip tillage equipment designs. This list does not imply any endorsement of a particular make.

http://www.dawnequipment.com/
http://www.dmifarm.com
http://www.unverferth.com/
http://www.progressivefarm.com
http://www.yetterco.com/
http://www.blu-jet.com/blujet/index.html
http://www.tilltech.ca
http://www.bighambrothers.com/tillage.htm
http://www.suncomarketing.com