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Dryland Crops: The Farmers Innovator Adds New Summer Crop to Suppress Troublesome Goatgrass Grant SmithLehi, Utah Weed management highlights Strategies: fallow cultivation... crop rotation with summer annual Tools: chisel plow... tandem disk... rod weeder Jointed goatgrass, like the tares of Biblical times, grows right up with a wheat crop. Seeds from the tenacious invader traveled […]

Dryland Crops: The Farmers Oregon's Deep Soils, Sloping Fields Reward Gentle, Careful Tool Use Clinton ReederPendleton, Oregon Weed management highlights Strategies: Minimum tillage... careful match of weed tools with soil conditions... hand roguing Tools: spring-tooth harrow... spike-tooth harrow... rod weeder... chisel plow... tandem disk.... rod-tine-sweep combination In Clint Reeder's part of northern central Oregon, the […]

Dryland Crops: The Farmers Long Rotations, Tall Crops, Right Steel Suppress Northern Dakota Weeds Terry JacobsonWales, North Dakota Weed management highlights Strategies: crop rotation... tall varieties... delayed planting... pre-plant weeding... mechanical cultivation... soil structure management... fallow tillage residue management Tools: rod weeder at planting... stiff-tine drag harrow... field cultivator... row-crop cultivator... chisel plow... wide sweep […]

Dryland Crops: The Farmers Dry Times on the High Plains Give Advantage to Minimal Tillage Jim CavinHereford, Texas Weed management highlights Strategies: minimum tillage... reduced-chemical fallow... cultivation... herbicides (mostly preplant) Tools: cultivators... rotary hoe... disk-steer guidance system... stubble mulch plow... chisel plow Jim Cavin tried no-till farming in his 1.5-mile long fields of grain, but […]

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 […]

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 […]

Dryland CropsThe Farmers Dale Artho Wildorado, TexasJerome Berning Marienthal, KansasJim Calvin Hereford, TexasTerry Jacobson Wales, North DakotaClinton Reeder Pendleton, OregonGrant Smith Lehi, Utah

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]