www.sare.org publications steel-in-the-field dryland-crop-farmer-profiles jerome-berning-marienthal-ks Jerome Berning, Marienthal, KS Dryland Crops: The Farmers Beds and Rod Weeder Boost Diverse Crops on Kansas Farm Jerome BerningMarienthal, Kansas Weed management highlights Strategies: crop rotation... fallow cultivation... mechanical controls... herbicides Tools: rotary hoe... cultivator... rod weeder... sweep plow... stubble mulch plow... rotary tiller More steel means fewer headaches for Jerome Berning. Recent additions give him better control […]
www.sare.org publications steel-in-the-field dryland-crop-farmer-profiles dale-artho-wildorado-tx Dale Artho, Wildorado, TX Dryland Crops: The Farmers Tillage in the Texas Panhandle: Matching Wits With Clay, Wind and Drought Dale ArthoWildorado, Texas Weed management highlights Strategies: inter-row cultivation... winter wheat grazing... fallow mulch tillage... limited herbicides (spot-spray, burndown and banded pre-emerge)... narrow rows for quick canopy... staggered planting dates to keep weed-control needs within labor/machine capacity... summer-annual forage […]
www.sare.org publications steel-in-the-field dryland-crop-farmer-profiles Dryland Crop Farmer Profiles Dryland CropsThe Farmers Dale Artho Wildorado, TexasJerome Berning Marienthal, KansasJim Calvin Hereford, TexasTerry Jacobson Wales, North DakotaClinton Reeder Pendleton, OregonGrant Smith Lehi, Utah
www.sare.org publications steel-in-the-field dryland-crop-tools tandem-disk-harrow Tandem disk harrow Dryland CropsTandem Disk Harrow Overview: The cutting and mixing action of a disk harrow varies with the diameter, weight and concavity of its blades; blade spacing; the angle of the disk harrow gang relative to the direction of travel; and operating speed. In dryland farming, the disk harrow can help prepare overwintered stubble or fallowed […]
www.sare.org publications steel-in-the-field dryland-crop-tools red-weeder Rod weeder Dryland CropsRod Weeder Overview: Rotating subsurface rod action pulls and uproots weeds, depositing them on the surface fully exposed to sun and wind. Under heavy weed conditions, the net effect can be a weed residue mulch. The rod leaves a layer of loose soil as its main mulching effect that deters weed regrowth and lessens […]
www.sare.org publications steel-in-the-field dryland-crop-tools wide-blade-sweep-plow Wide blade sweep plow Dryland CropsWide Blade Sweep Plow (5' to 7' V-blades)Overview: Often generically called 'Noble blades' due to the Canadian manufacturer, these implements are perhaps the ultimate steel force for weed management. Reinforced, box-beam frames support a single V-shaped blade per section. Overlapping blades 5' to 12' wide run 3" to 6" below the surface to cut […]
www.sare.org publications steel-in-the-field dryland-crop-tools stubble-mulch-blade-plow Stubble mulch blade plow Dryland CropsStubble Mulch Blade Plow 2' to 4' V-blades; 26" sweeps)Overview: Intermediate types of tools that combine tillage aspect of chisel plows with residue-maintaining aspects of the heavier wide-blade sweep plow. Used for first tillage after crop harvest where a depth of 3" to 6" is sufficient. Limits moisture loss better compared with chisel plow […]
www.sare.org publications steel-in-the-field dryland-crop-tools chisel-plow Chisel plow Dryland CropsChisel Plow (with sweeps) Overview: Heavier construction and fewer shanks improve residue management function compared with a field cultivator; used under a wider range of conditions, leaving soil rougher. Can be operated deep enough to shatter hardpans and improve water infiltration. For weed control in untilled soil, sweeps 12" to 18" wide do an […]
www.sare.org publications steel-in-the-field dryland-crop-tools field-cultivator Field cultivator Dryland CropsField Cultivator (with sweeps) Overview: Shanks and sweeps much like those used on row-crop cultivators. Shanks stagger-spaced on four or five toolbars to do broadcast tillage 2" to 5" deep across the full tool width. Field cultivators are widely used in mulch-tillage of relatively light residue, low herbicide systems to control successive flushes of […]
www.sare.org publications steel-in-the-field dryland-crop-tools Dryland Crop Tools Dryland Crops The Tools Field cultivator (with sweeps) Chisel plow (with sweeps) Stubble mulch blade plow Wide blade sweep plow Rod weeder Tandem disk harrow