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- From: Nigel Wackett <nwackett AT yahoo.com>
- To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: [Market-farming] Zone/strip tillage
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 05:23:17 -0700 (PDT)
I'm about to start my first year of production (diversified organic) and am looking at different sustainable cultivation methods. I particularly like the concept of zone, or strip, tillage as you only make one pass to prepare a planting area for a particular crop - you don’t have to plow or disk, saving fuel, time, and enhancing soil
quality by not inverting it. My extension agent says the following: "Strip
tillage is practiced widely with field crop producers (commodity crops) and most
always requires the use of synthetic herbicides as it
uses no mechanical weed control. Some veg producers have tried tilling out
sections of a cover crop and planting into those strips with mixed
results." Does anyone here have any experience with this method? Thanks, Nigel Wackett Frog Belly Farm Longmont, CO |
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[Market-farming] Zone/strip tillage,
Nigel Wackett, 09/21/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Zone/strip tillage, Ryan Platte, 09/24/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Zone/strip tillage,
sunnfarm, 09/24/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Zone/strip tillage, Brian, 09/25/2010
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