Top No-Till Farming Products
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If you’re a no-till kind of farmer, or you’d like to become one, it’s important to ensure that you are using the best tools for the job. No-till farming often relies heavily on precision farming techniques, which allows for tillage to be reduced as seeding and soil treatment is so localized. But there are innumerable products out there to help you get the best possible results from a no-till farming system. Below, we list some of the most popular products on the market today for no-till farming.
According to a recent poll, no-till farmers are just crazy for Precision Planting’s Keeton Seed Firmer, a planter/drill attachment that gets rave reviews for its ease-of-use and precision application. Precision Planting really started making a name for themselves last year – their 20/20 SeedSense planter monitor system is also a very popular precision tool.
Other popular (and useful) products include:
- For increased seed fertility, some of the top-ranking products on the market today include Agrotain, Avail and NutriSphere-N.
- If it’s insect protection you’re after, check out Monsanto’s YieldGard VT Triple, Dow Agrosciences and Pioneer’s Herculex, or Syngenta’s Warrior.
- For fighting fungus, some of the best products are Syngenta’s Quilt, Bayer CropScience’s Stratego, and BASF’s Headline.
- When it comes to treating seeds, you can’t go wrong with Syngenta’s CruiserMaxx or Bayer CropScience’s Poncho.
- For weed control, try Bayer CropScience’s LibertyLink with Ignite herbicide, Syngenta’s Touchdown herbicide, and Monsanto’s Genuity Roundup Ready 2 Yield or Roundup PowerMAX.
- If you’ve got residue to manage, you’ll get great results from John Deere’s 600C corn head, Spreader Inc’s The Chaff Spreader or Calmer Corn Heads’ Bt Crusher.
- In the equipment department, your no-till efforts will be greatly assisted by Kinze’s 3600 Twin-Line Planters, Great Plains Mfg.’s Yield Pro planter, or Case IH’s Early Riser planters.
- For planter and drill attachments, there’s the much-touted Keeton Seed Firmer, by Precision Planting, as mentioned above, although their other product 20/20 Airforce System is also very strong, as well as Martin Industries’ Martin-Till WA1360 floating row cleaner.
- When it comes to strip-till, be sure to check out Thurston Manufacturing’s Blu-Jet Strip-Till unit, Dawn Equipment’s Pluribus Strip-Till unite, or John Deere’s 2510S Strip-Till Residue Master.
