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Published May 7, 2011 | By admin   Going until sunset is sometimes the days work schedule for the American farmer wanting to get his/her corn in the ground. We finalized Friday morning 5/06/11 with 87 different plots across the entire farm.   This

The annual gremlins are chased away, and the planter is rolling.   Of course, Mike’s elbows deep in the dirt again, checking for 7-1/4″ seed spacing and checking soil temps up and down the row. He’s happy now, and the

Published April 26, 2011 | By admin   Monsanto publishes National Summary on strip-tillage   After many days of hit-and-miss rain and cool weather, we’re still chomping at the bit to get into the field. And, this cool spring is a great analogy to

Published April 20, 2011 | By admin   System controls input costs and improves productivety   The sun FINALLY came out today at the Orthman Research Farm, and though it isn’t expected to last long, service tech Brent Kliment took advantage by throwing open

Published April 13, 2011 | By admin   After a few hiccups with accessing some control cables and some parts we had waited on from suppliers which happens, the team got into the field to carry out their pre-plant strip tilling operations. They are

Published April 3, 2011 | By admin   Late last fall we pulled the experimental 4row 1tRIPr through our west field of the Orthman Research Farm to create locations for several studies with N-P-K applied with the pictured unit. We applied for high sustainable

Published March 22, 2011 | By admin   We at Orthman Manufacturing are dedicated to gaining data, reasons, information, and answers to the questions we get from you growers regarding the system approach of Strip-Till. This week we have sought out more involving why

Published March 16, 2011 | By admin   March 16th, 2011 Checking our fields, twice!   On March 16th, 2011 Mike and team went out into the fields to check on how the residue and moisture is because it is time to consider that

Published March 15, 2011 | By admin   The three days of field visits and presentations in the Central Valley area,with the California Conservation Tillage Workgroup and Southern California Edison was an eye opening visit. We were exposed to numerous farmers that have a