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Twin-Row Corn and the Quest for 100% No-Till

By Laura Barrera posted on December 17, 2016

After seeing the damage caused by tillage on his home farm in Austria, Eduard Zehetner decided to try no-till on his Hensall, Ontario, farm in the early 1990s. While he was able to make no-till soybeans and winter wheat work, no-till corn was a struggle.

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November 1, 2016

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Twin Rows, Covers and Chicken Litter

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Twin Rows, Covers and Chicken Litter Complete an Evolving No-Till System

The Kutzes have continually tweaked their equipment and practices to achieve a level of production they didn’t think was possible.

By Laura Barrera posted on October 29, 2016 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Equipment

About 10 years ago, Dennis and John Kutz needed to trade planters and decided it was time to try something new. So the Fort Atkinson, Wis., father-and-son operation purchased a 12-row Great Plains planter and gave 30-inch twin rows a try.

Building a Twin-Row Planter From Scratch

October 10, 2016 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Equipment

John Kutz of Fort Atkinson, Wis., talks about the DB60 30-inch, twin-row planter he and his father, Dennis, built from scratch, including why they wanted to build one themselves, some of the challenges they faced and future upgrades they’d like to make.

Are Twin Rows The Corn System Of The Future?

The push is on to increase corn yields to a 300-bushel U.S. average. Twin rows may allow corn roots room to grow to capture nutrients and water, while allowing plants to capture more available sunlight.

By Darrell Bruggink posted on February 1, 2010 | Posted in Equipment

Have you ever felt like you needed a little more space? If Greg Selbrede’s corn plants could talk, the Leon, Wis., no-tiller figures they would have been telling him they felt just a bit claustrophobic.

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