How Strip till improved productivity on my farm.

its nice to see historically bad spots starting to become productive spots,

[@mn-1381]

Nice to see the progress and nice to have landlords compliment you!

[@shaneholst6940]

It's good to see that what you have been working on is working great!! Thanks Jon for showing us!👍 What do bonbons taste like? 🤔🤷🏼‍♂️😂🤣

[@AlextheDutchDairyfarmer]

Goodmorning Jon!

[@TAHDAHFarm]

This year here in nw ohio the till fields are winning over no-till. We will have to see how it finishes out.

[@JamesOBrien2253]

Great video Jon and as always with plenty of common sense👍

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

I need to get back into these lecture videos

[@JamesOBrien2253]

@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 yup definitely my favourite style of yours

[@tmichael6393]

Strip-till seems like the best of both worlds. The benefits of tillage, but only where you want it, leaving the rest of the soil to live. Not to mention the fertilizer placement, witch is huge.

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Absolutely! Such a wonderful tool for the farm for both soil management and nutrient management At a local guy tell me that strip-till can't work on their Farm, and I said absolutely it can't because you got to get the seed that does not know that there hasn't been full tillage done. He looked at me with the funniest look of you little smart alec

[@tmichael6393]

I like that. Some larger farms been doing strip till around me (north east Iowa) for awhile. They farm every soil type imaginable and like it.

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Nice! Other than a strange anecdotal experience I can't imagine how strictil can't work where conventional till can but ultimately help your farm be more profitable

[@danw6014]

I like strip till. We had a John Deere 7000 4 row with a Rawson coulter system on the front. There were three wavey coulters per row. Even in heavily compacted areas the corn did well. I'd like to set up a planter like this for my own operation.

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

How do you think them 3 coulters would do in grass?

[@danw6014]

@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 we used to plant in old hay seedings but we would kill it off in the fall. It seemed to go through pen pack manure as we covered every acre with it or lagoon, sand manure.

[@curtmcelvain1749]

Great video!

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Thank you

[@mirrorimagecattleco]

I would like to try strip-till after we chop ryegrass in the spring to plant double crops corn into. But no one in the area has one to rent or hire. And at only 150ac hard to justify the purchase of one but maybe someday.

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Where are you located?. What about a couple wavy coulters running fast and shallow to chop up a berm.

[@mirrorimagecattleco]

@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 west TN. I've been lookin at some homemade rigs but not alot of shop time available while running a dairy

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

@@mirrorimagecattleco no you're pretty married to them cows. After all the hours I spent building my first two machines if I would have paid myself the same wage that I was getting off the farm I could have just went and bought a small professional made machine.

[@farming4g]

Hmmm... I wonder how something like this would work in life-long alkali ridden spots...

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

The soil people out by you say do not use tillage in the alkaline spots because it moves the water away too quickly and that's what helps promote more alkaline problems. They say whatever weed is growing to mow it do not kill it and get some alfalfa seeds out there because it's a high water use plant

[@Heimerviewfarm]

I mean if your feeling like throwing away 18k dollars my wallet isn't very thick so I could fit a check in there.

[@e.a.bfarms]

What and how much fert did you band with it? With how bad the drought was last year, in my area even with how wet it's been we are still trying to build back soil moisture.

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

On the corn ground I ran 250 lb in 40 but I could easily do 350 lb Yes we need to get every drop of water that falls on our field into the field. Last year took a lot of moisture out

[@jamiy7760]

Looks excellent! What strip units are you running?

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

I have the B & H bar made right here in Minnesota! I can't say that it's better or worse than any other brand but I can say that it did a fantastic job and I did not have any breakdowns or troubles with it

[@jamiy7760]

@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 Gotcha... is it a coulter unit or shank? We have a 1230 gladiator and thinking about switching to different brand and get a coulter unit

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Gladiator is a heck of a machine! It's a shank, I like the spring strip till and a shank does a good job of lifting the soil for me.

[@RickBork]

$18 is a lot for me $20 changes my weekend plans 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

It could get you something at the bar!

[@jordanhill5072]

Was field conventional till before and now strip till or was it in your no till program and now strip till?

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Yes, was tilled for its life than seeded to hay for a lot of years

[@jordanhill5072]

@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 ok glad to hear that land owners are becoming aware of soil health practices and it's benefits!

[@averysenior6571]

Do you have any sandy soil that your doing strip till on? Is it worth it on sand

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

I actually love it in the Sandy or soil. Since that large granular dry coarse soil has a hard time with fertility the strip till actually really does good. It allows us to get residue on the surface and get away from all the tillage so we get the benefits of no-till but we also get a better nutrient Management program. Our sand here also has a very poor infiltration rate so just like the other ground it helps get more water into the profile

[@jimgannon1917]

Is it your first Yr strip tilling

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

No in 15 built the machine to try it out to see if strip-till would work. This is the first year with a factory built machine