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ETS Rolling Baskets: Field Tested, Customer Approved
Jason Reis’s advice to the Environmental Tillage Systems (ETS) engineers was simple: “Don’t screw it up.” This past spring Reis, who farms near Lime Springs, Iowa, was among the first farmers to test ETS prototype rolling baskets mounted on the back of his SoilWarrior. Rolling baskets are sturdy...
To Shank or not to Shank: Choosing the Right Row Unit
Many farmers are accustomed to doing deep, horizontal, full surface tillage. But with an increasing number of growers researching strip-till, many are asking themselves what type of tillage system is best for their soil. The great news is ETS manufactures SoilWarrior row units that provide tillage...
The Soil Warrior’s Guide to Spring Tillage Success
If you are an ETS customer or have spent some time at a conservation tillage conference, chances are you’ve met Kevin Kuehn. Officially, he’s the product support manager for ETS who has been with the company since its inception. Unofficially, he’s a walking strip-till encyclopedia. Over the years...
Fighting Compaction with Strip-Till and a Controlled Traffic System
This story originally appeared in a January issue of Strip-Till Strategies and is re-posted with permission. By Ian Gronau, Associate Editor Over the five generations the Delhotal family has farmed in West Brooklyn, Ill., it’s been important for them to produce high quality crops while caring for...
My Journey to Strip-Till
By Ben Pederson It was August 2011, and I was growing restless with our cropping system. Actually, I was past restless and knew what I wanted to do. For 4 or more years, I had researched strip-till as an alternative to the aggressive broadcast tillage we were doing at the time. I hated field...