Published December 26, 2018 | By Mike Petersen
Mike Petersen here post our Christmas celebration to send you a bit deeper onto the Precision Tillage website to read an article I wrote about alleviation of soil compaction. Maybe I was a little too much on the Christmas grasshopper cream pie yesterday but please take a look at the article “…from the soilsview…” to offer you all some words to consider how your fields shape up for the spring season.
The compaction issue has driven me to look more and more into what limits production, crop health, soils health and water. Many of you are well aware of what compaction does and I will not start that conversation here. Please take a look the above mentioned article and read and consider my diagram I made some weeks back when we at Orthman were discussing the next iteration of the 1tRIPr tool. Yes we are thinking through what is good with the 1tRIPr, what is it you growers consider makes the 1tRIPr standout or needs to be better at.
I have been at this endeavor of looking at Strip-Till since 1986 and back with Orthman now to more fully understand all the capabilities of this machine for you – the farmer. I am going into my 9th year with Orthman Manufacturing, Inc and I do realize this tool can make you the grower of Ag commodities better at farming. We know some believe “tilling” the soil in any fashion beyond the planter is overdoing it. In today’s world of bigger machinery, harvesting on the go to get the harvest done before the Image:Exposing the soil profile on a 1tRIPr
weather closes in and delays everything or stops it all – we induce a compacted zone anywhere from 0.2cm to 1 inches thick in one pass. This past harvest season many growers east of the Missouri River in the United States it turned wet and ohhh boy!