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Published August 20, 2012 | By admin   See how precision tillage methods can help with dry conditions in the Orthman booth #653 at the Farm Progress Show in Boone Iowa! The question… who’s gonna road the 1tRIPr there?!    

Published August 10, 2012 | By admin   Courtesy Mark Griffith   Orthman 1tRIPR strip tillage machine with dry fertilizer, preparing a field for seed corn… in South Africa!    

Published July 18, 2012 | By admin   At Orthman Farms, LLC we are reaching for the sky to tap the 100bushels/acre goal.  As we attempt that mark we are applying a package of slow release products with Kugler XRN™,

Published June 8, 2012 | By admin   Now 20 days after emergence the top quality hybrids we plant at the Orthman Research Farm near Lexington, Nebraska are off and running. Carrying out population counts this week and I felt

Published May 6, 2012 | By admin   Well I (the soils guy for Orthman Mfg.) was caught in the act attempting to capture an image similar to this one with the evening thunderheads off to the east somewhere over

Published May 3, 2012 | By admin   Agronomist Mike Petersen gets down and dirty   We aren’t sure exactly what he’s doing, but agronomist and soil aficionado Mike Petersen was AGAIN caught in the dirt at the Orthman Research

Published April 23, 2012 | By admin   Earthworms are like a “free” hired man!   Good news folks! Some of the earliest farmers, on the terraces of Egypt, used oxen and a gouging plank to turn the soil. This

Photo Above: Alfalfa seeded into small grain stubble, courtesy of Mike Petersen.   Published April 12, 2012 | By admin   Working with growers in the Northwest, we spoke with another innovative Orthman 1tRIPr owner about how he raises alfalfa

Published April 4, 2012 | By admin   Agronomist Mike Petersen gives a presentation to dealers from the Prairieland Partners group. Mike showed results from strip till and other precision tillage techniques at this conference in Newton, Kansas.   Mike is available for presentations