There’s a new hybrid practice growers are taking advantage of that marries the benefits of cover crops with those of strip-till.
The practice of “bio strip-till” represents an advanced way of using cover crops to improve the crop-row environment, says Joel Gruver, a cover crop and soils agronomist at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Ill.
The concept is very new and is being defined mostly by cover-crop innovators. While more must be learned about yield…