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Published February 4, 2010 | By admin   February 4, 2010 Strip-Tilling Before Tomatoes Are Transplanted   Dr. Jeff Mitchell working with the Sano Farms, together they are getting into a better managed crop of tomatoes to reduce input costs, reduce PM10 concerns, retain

Published January 28, 2010 | By admin   Returning from the Minnesota Conservation Tillage Conference held in Jackpot Pct, MN we saw some of the remnants of the corn yet to be harvested in snow. 2009 is a year many growers want to close

Published January 24, 2010 | By admin   January Snow on Idaho Fields – Strip-Till is at Work!   Even with snow blanketing the landscape from the Intermountain West to the Eastern CornBelt, we know for those lucky souls that got some Strip-Tilling done

Published January 21, 2010 | By admin   FEMA co-sponsored this event to entice international farm machinery manufacturers to come over to the U.S. and show their products and share ideas. We at Orthman Mfg. were there to be part of the event. Growers

Published December 19, 2009 | By admin   Strip-Till Compared to No-Till Our Agronomist Mike Petersen is tallying up the results and wanted to give you a bit of the news. Look off to the right in the NEWS section. Keep watching for more

Published November 25, 2009 | By admin   Moisture is Down Below 16!   As we finished shivering through the cold Arctic air blast with dry corn we shouted to one another Hoorah! At the Orthman Farm in 62 actual plots we averaged over

Published October 24, 2009 | By admin   During the week of October 20th, 2009 the Sunbelt Expo took place for the 32nd time. Due to some wet weather as of late the peanut harvest has been slowed considerably. While we were there we

Published October 15, 2009 | By admin   While excavating in the rain and then sunshine today (10/15) the precise placement of nutrients with the strip-till implement in the irrigated corn fields of the Platte River Valley-Nebraska,we have seen deeper

Published October 13, 2009 | By admin   If it is wet, cold, and miserable in Central Nebraska it must be time for Mike Petersen to go out measure, count, dig roots, and play in the mud. Today was no