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Strip-till Corn and No-till Soybean Management

Date: 06/21/2012
Time: 11 a.m.

Lunch provided

Host:

Dana Norby

1635 340th Street

Osage, IA

Contact John Lundvall, Iowa Learning Farms, jlundval@iastate.edu 515.291.9936 (cell)

Description/Topics:

• Reasons for reducing tillage, including cost, erosion reduction, controlled traffic, improved seedbeds, water permeability, improved soil structure and time savings
• Q and A with the Norby brothers
• The Conservation Station will be open for visits

The Farm:

Dana Norby farms with his brothers Randy and Steve. They started no-tilling soybeans on a limited basis in 1992. By the late 1990s, all the soybean acres were switched to no-till. The brothers started strip-tilling some corn in 2000 and by 2004 all of their corn acres were switched to strip-till. They use full-width tillage only where there are leveling issues.

Directions:

From Osage: Travel west on Highway 9 about five miles to county road T-26; south on T-26 two miles to 340th Street, then east about 1/2 mile to 1635.