Minn-Dak Growers Achieve Objective at Minimal Cost

    There’s only one thing better than an idea that works effectively when put into action — and that’s an effective idea whose cost is minimal.

     Were there an “Association of No-Till Sugarbeet Producers,” the group probably could hold its annual meeting inside a single beet cart.  Reduced-tillage beet growers?  Of course, there’s a lot of that these days.  Strip-till beets?  Certainly.  But bona fide no-till?  That’s still a rarity, to be sure.

Satisfactory Crop Residue Management Is a Key for the Carlquists of Southern Idaho

By Don Lilleboe

    Doug and Melanie Carlquist were among a sizable contingent of Idaho sugarbeet producers who attended a strip-till seminar and field demonstration hosted by Amalgamated Sugar Company back in the summer of 2008.  And, like a number of those attending, they were impressed enough with the perceived benefits of the production system that they purchased a new strip-till unit for deployment in their upcoming row crop fields.